{"title":"The Soft Pink Truth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Soft Pink Truth (SPT) is a solo music project created by Drew Daniel, one-half of the Baltimore-based experimental electronics duo Matmos. The project was born out of a challenge from UK house producer Matthew Herbert to produce a decent house record. SPT released debut tracks on Herbert's Soundslike label and went on to release albums that featured electronic interpretations of UK punk and American hardcore classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter an extended hiatus, The Soft Pink Truth returned in 2014 with the album \"Why Do The Heathen Rage?\" which included covers of various black metal songs with guest vocals from Antony Hegarty, Terence Hannum, Jenn Wasner, and Owen Gardner. Their most recent album \"Why Pay More?\" was self-released on Bandcamp under a \"name your price\" model.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to their own work, The Soft Pink Truth has produced remixes for artists such as Björk, Brooks, Dani Siciliano, Tussle, Sketch Show, Otto von Schirach, Drop The Lime, Eats Tapes, Fischerspooner, Hawnay Troof, Quartet Subtle Telepathe Phiiliip Merimell Kevin Blechdom Roots Manuva Grizzly Bear and Franz Ferdinand.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"was-it-ever-real","title":"Was It Ever Real?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWas It Ever Real?\u003c\/i\u003e is the latest release from Drew Daniel, the brilliant mind behind The Soft Pink Truth and one half of the iconic experimental electronic duo Matmos. Features a cover of Coil’s immortal queer classic, ‘The Anal Staircase’, reinterpreted here with slinky hi-hats, a horn section and psychedelic vocal treatments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe closing title track is a slow-burning post-soul instrumental number with twanging lead guitar from Acetone’s Mark Lightcap and harpsichord by Tom Boram.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe entire mini album moves the listener across the genres of disco, minimalism, ambient and jazz, sliding on and off the dancefloor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrossfading from hedonism to reverie as it remembers past pleasures and imagines a future yet to come, the EP is also a noticeably social affair, with guest contributions from Matmos’ M.C. Schmidt, Daniel Clarke, Id M Theft Able, Rose E. 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Throughout, \u003ci\u003eIs It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This?\u003c\/i\u003e aims for a kind of psychedelic poolside take on disco, using the steady 120 bpm rhythmic chassis of the music as a launchpad for reverie rather than big room EDM bluster. Sidestepping retro kitsch but paying homage to highly personal interpretations of disco such as Arthur Russell, Don Ray, Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band, and Mandré, or the jazz-funk of Creed Taylor and CTI Records. Its emphasis on slowly morphing deep house grooves will also appeal to fans of DJ Sprinkles, Moodymann, and Theo Parrish. 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The new album features a host of special guests: Bill Orcutt offers one of his most delicate performances committed to record. Other guests include strings arranger Ulas Kurugullu, harpists Neleta Ortiz and Cecilia Cuccolin, pianists Koye Berry and M.C. Schmidt, strings player Kurugullu, and the Ebu String Quartet, as well as woodwind players by Brandon Wilkins and Evelyn Frances and Zach Rowden of celebrated noise duo Tongue Depressor provides grinding double bass drones. Wedding emotional expression with canny references to the inherited history of recorded music, the chimes, organ and pizzicato strings on “Phrygian Ganymede” recall Bernard Herrmann’s scores for classic Alfred Hitchcock films, while galloping marimbas lend a sense of screwball comedy on “L’Esprit de L’Escalier.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCan Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? \u003c\/em\u003eis a singular album that speaks to the prowess of Drew Daniel as a composer and producer, deftly interlacing pop structure and classical timbre while interlacing subtle electronic sound design with gorgeous acoustics. Across the album Daniel embraces a spirit of drama and romanticism that blurs the boundaries between unconscious desire and everyday reality. 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