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||| Artist Name_____> The Soft Moon |||
||| Album Name______> Criminal |||
||| Label___________> Sacred Bones |||
||| Genre___________> Industrial |||
||| URL_____________> http://www.thesoftmoon.com |||
||| Release Date____> 2018-01-31 |||
||| Street Date_____> 2018-02-02 |||
||| Size____________> 267.00mb ||
|| Playtime________> 39:39 ||
|| Encoder_________> FLAC 1.3.1 ||
|| Quality_________> 895 kbps / 44.1khz / 2 channels ||
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| 1 Burn 3:20 |
| 2 Choke 3:09 |
| 3 Give Something 4:30 |
| 4 Like A Father 4:40 |
| 5 The Pain 4:36 |
| 6 It Kills 4:17 |
| 7 Ill 2:35 |
| 8 Young 3:50 |
| 9 Born Into This 3:49 |
| 10 Criminal 4:53 |
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| æCriminalÆ, The Soft Moon's fourth studio album, is a confessional |
| work. Through the stark lens of shame and guilt that has followed |
| Luis Vasquez since a violent childhood growing up within the |
| humming ambient sprawl of 80s Mojave Desert, here he documents the |
| gut-wrenching sound of going to war with himself. Battling with |
| his own sanity, self-hatred, insecurity, self-entitlement and |
| grappling with the risk of these things transforming him into a |
| person he despises, Vasquez has laid his feelings bare with this: |
| his confession and most self-reflective work to date. |
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| ôGuilt is my biggest demon and has been following me since |
| childhood. Everything I do strengthens the narrative that I am |
| guiltyö Vasquez reflects. ôThe concept of æCriminalÆ is a |
| desperate attempt to find relief by both confessing to my |
| wrongdoings and by blaming others for their wrongdoings that have |
| affected me.ö |
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| æCriminalÆ marks a striking and important chapter in his |
| self-exploration, both artistically and emotionally. As a young |
| musician living in Oakland, Vasquez began to try and process the |
| narrative of his difficult upbringing veiled through musical |
| exploration. Taking krautrock's motorik beats and Post-Punk |
| deconstructions and honing them into a hushed percussive |
| incantation, The Soft Moon's self-titled debut album took shape. |
| The album was released in late 2010 by Captured Tracks and was |
| praised by critics and emulated by contemporaries. |
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| In 2012 the apocalyptic conceptual work of Zeros emerged, shortly |
| followed by Vasquez moving to Venice, Italy in 2013, acting as a |
| catalyst for 2014Æs release, Deeper. While previous albums were |
| primarily instrumental records, where VasquezÆs voice was diffused |
| amidst the music as another instrument, Deeper marked the |
| beginning of a new musical direction where vocals and lyrics |
| became something more than a mere presence. Deeper was a descent |
| into the womb of childhood trauma, anxiety and fear, and although |
| Vasquez survived this dark exploration of himself, he did not |
| return alone. |
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| Working once more with Maurizio Baggio, who produced Deeper, at La |
| Distilleria in Bassano Del Grappa, Italy, æCriminalÆ sees Vasquez |
| further explore putting his lyrics at the forefront and letting |
| his raw emotions flow. The album begins with a confrontation with |
| his true self through the torrid bass lines and searing vocals of |
| ôBurnö; a song evoking a loss of control akin to demonic |
| possession, stating: "Eyes, reflecting the person that I am, and |
| it burns". In this track Vasquez's guilt bores deeper and deeper |
| into a condemnation that ultimately is: "Fire, hell is where I'll |
| go to live, so I burnö. |
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| ôBurnö is followed by the caustic bass, mechanized rhythms, and |
| numbing emulsions of ôChoke,ö a song about the amplifying and |
| anesthetizing effect of cocaine, a drug whose darker side Vasquez |
| is not unfamiliar with. The next track ôGive Somethingö is a |
| subterranean love song from the deepest depths, with harrowingly |
| despondent lyrics, seeking hope in a sea of shame. |
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| The album continues its thematic inner conflict in the |
| Industrial/EBM percussion and distorted high attack bass of ôLike |
| a Fatherö, a song reflecting Vasquez's anger towards the father |
| that abandoned him. ôThis head is a problem/You're the ghost of my |
| problem/Something's got to giveö pleads Vasquez as revving guitars |
| invoke chainsaws before the songÆs final lines search for closure: |
| to kill the father within himself. |
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| The album closes with title track ôCriminalö; a despondent |
| resignation to guilt; bereft, broken, and bruised, with lyrics |
| that confess: ôIt's the way I cross the line, it's the way I open, |
| it's the way to my decline, it's the way I'm brokenö. The song, |
| like the album itself, is Vasquez's way of holding himself |
| accountable and seeking redemption for the abuse he inflicts on |
| himself, and acknowledges roots in the abuse which, inflicted upon |
| him as a child, broke him. |
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