Soft Kill, Tamaryn

Portland, Oregons SOFT KILL, ripped through 2016 with their first release on Profound Lore Records Choke, the follow up to 2015s Heresy became the bands most acclaimed LP to date and saw the band on a constant touring cycle in support of it through North America and Europe as demand for the band was on a constant upswing. SOFT KILL now return, bringing their unique blend of gloom, laced with pop charm and flawless song writing that transcends the post punk genre. Tamaryn has been crafting gothic dreampop and soaring shoegaze records for the better part of a decade. With each subsequent release she has both expanded her sonic palette and playfully deconstructed it, the project itself an iconoclastic exploration involving a variety of collaborators and genre-melding that has spanned three previous albums, an EP and a handful of singles. While 2015s lush Cranekiss marked a synth-inflected left turn for the artist, Dreaming the Dark pushes her sound even further. Its simultaneously her hardest, darkest record and still somehow her most accessible, landing squarely in the sweet spot between between pop and post-punk. Terrified (Robin Guthrie Remix) by Tamaryn w/ Lovelorn: Drugpop from Anna & Patrick Troxell. Formerly of Creepoid.