Deeper

The Soft Moon presents Deeper, their third and most ambitious album to date.  While maintaining the stark sonic formula so indicative of The Soft Moon's music - that bass that reeks of chorus, those unrelenting, mechanized beats, that wailing synthesizer and those eerily, angular guitar lines that worm into your ears and never leave - Baggio also worked to refine the album's gothic palette, leaving Vasquez to concentrate more intensely on songwriting and singing than ever before. The voice of The Soft Moon has never been more clear and honest than it is on this record. With eerie, immersive tracks like the dogged 'Far' and slow, beautifully melancholic 'Wasting' (the first track written for 'Deeper'), the album is a penetrating portrait of Vasquez as he wrestles thoughts of suicide, vulnerability and what it means to heal. By facing the most hopeless parts of himself without illusion and putting his past demons to bed, the creation of 'Deeper' was an intense personal exploration of existence for Vasquez - old wounds were forcibly opened, deep anger and paranoia were manipulated into song - and he did not emerge unchanged. Deeper may have delivered Vasquez back to the waking world, but it willingly drags us further into The Soft Moon's dark, euphonic universe once more.