★★★★★
Western society is busier than it has ever been before. It is also more overwhelmed with options, from which television show you stream to which flavor of Oreos you buy. It's easy to ascertain why condensed, encapsulated experiences would in many cases be appreciated. Why take the time to weed through the wine list when you can simply order a flight? This desire for expedition and efficiency has to be the primary explanation for the appeal of, not to mention acclaim for, the Soft Moon's music...
- www.popmatters.com
2015-04-30
★★★★★
The idea of music as therapy has existed since the time of Aristotle, but few have internalized this as much as Luis Vasquez -- the post-punk progenitor of The Soft Moon. Taking notes from Lennon and Reznor, Vasquez has dissected his own psychological torment over three albums with mostly the same results. Anything concerning the resolve of one's own psyche is bound to come up short without outside help...
- www.noripcord.com
2015-04-13
★★★★★
Label:
Captured Tracks
Release Date:
31/03/2015
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It's difficult to imagine what disturbing thoughts occur on the mind of Luis Vasquez. "It kills me inside" he interjects during the death disco jaunt of 'Far'; by Deeper's climax ('Being'), Vasquez declares, "I can't see my face, I don't know who I am...
- drownedinsound.com
2015-04-10
★★★★★
It's difficult to imagine what disturbing thoughts occur on the mind of Luis Vasquez. he interjects during the death disco jaunt of 'Far'; by 's climax ('Being'), Vasquez declares, But then as the creative force behind art rock project Vasquez has carved out a niche as the 21st century overlord of aggressively pent up and often nihilistic post-punk...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2015-04-09
★★★★★
Because there will always be miserable teenagers and because nihilism and disaffection are just as much a part of the human condition as falling in love, there will always be a place--and a market--for explorations of abject darkness set it to music. Since 2010, Luis Vasquez of the Soft Moon has twisted his personal demons into songs, quietly breathing new life into gothy post-punk. On his new album, Deeper, he pushes his foreboding synth-pop even further...
- pitchfork.com
2015-04-03
★★★★★
Luis Vasquez's debut album as The Soft Moon back in 2010 was a creeped-out fusion of krautrock and shoegaze atmospherics merged with the electronic sounds of coldwave and mid '80's EBM, drenched in misery. After a misstep with 2012's Zeros - more of the same, just not as good, possibly a victim of recording on the road - he decamped to Berlin where he now resides.
It's a move that has re-energised his musical approach...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2015-04-04
★★★★★
The third album from Oakland artist Luis Vasquez (aka The Soft Moon) is a potent set of adventurous, goth-tinged coldwave and postpunk, featuring a bleak, dystopian sound with cold, alien synths, industrialized rhythms, ominous vocals and dark lyrics. 3/26/2015
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- kexp.org
2015-03-27
★★★★★
The Soft Moon seemed an incredibly exciting proposition when their self-titled debut album emerged in 2010. Fusing heavy, droning neo-psych and synth-driven krautrock with gothic post-punk, they created a hybrid that felt like more than just the sum of its parts. The glut of bands mining similar influences since, as well as a somewhat disappointing, treading-water follow-up - 2012's Zeroes - has rather diluted expectations for this, their third full-length outing...
- thequietus.com
2015-03-25
★★★★★
Music has a wonderful ability to make you feel a number of emotions and feelings, some happy and some very sad. It is unusual though for a collection of music to induce a feeling of complete and utter mind-bending terror. This is the overriding feeling that is generated by listening to Zeros the staggering second album by San Francisco synth noise group The Soft Moon...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-04-02
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