Debut single 'Nightlife' out Feb 16th
A band like the Soft Pack have been a long time coming indeed.
In a musical climate currently overflowing with flavour of the month hipsters, overblown pomp-rockers and fleeting pretenders to the pop throne, the San Diego- raised, LA-based quartet of Matt Lamkin (vocals, guitar), Matty McLoughlin (guitar), David Lantzman (bass) and Brian Hill (drums) play a refreshingly stripped-down, revved-up, no-frills brand of raucous rock and roll that, for all of its nods to the past, sounds, miraculously enough, sharply modern yet effortlessly cool, cutting a swathe through anything else out there in the process.
After only cementing the line up in February, The Soft Pack – originally called the Muslims – stormed CMJ in New York, packing out venues both big and small, generating breathless coverage in everything from the New York Times to Rolling Stone. Coveted supports with the likes of the Breeders, The Last Shadow Puppets, Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand in the US followed. Soon they captured the intrigue of the NME who instantly named them one of their 10 bands to watch in 2009 without having released a note this side of the pond! Now, the UK will get their first scintillating taste of The Soft Pack this side of the pond with this, their debut single 'Nightlife'.
So “Nightlife” crashes through like an adrenaline shot straight to the cerebral cortex, while “Brightside” swaggers with a ragged, propulsive charm. Taken together, it is a potent double hit of good old-fashioned incendiary rock and roll, the kind they don’t make any more; the kind that is primed and ready to set 2009 ablaze. Light the touch paper and stand well back.
‘(The Soft Pack) are already twice as good as your current rubbish favourite band and are shortly going to be even better’ - NME
‘If 2009 isn’t their year, something will have gone terribly wrong.' - Track of the Day, Qthemusic.com
‘(The Soft Pack’s) blurry, disaffected rock reminds us of New York rock when the The Strokes were the biggest band ever, and also Spacemen 3 minus the reverb and plus a bunch of dirt.’ – The Fader
‘Bold garage rock…a raw, real sound that’s tangible and gritty’ – Clash
TRACKLISTING:
A. Nightlife
B.Brightside
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
Feb 15 – NME Brats Show with Black Lips @ The Academy, Islington
Feb 17 – White Heat @ Madame Jo Jo’s
Feb 19 – Instore @ Rough Trade East
Feb 19 – Vice Presents…@ the Old Blue Last
Feb 26 – Moshi Moshi Night @ Hoxton Bar & Grill
March 04 - Glasgow Barrowlands (Supporting Franz Ferdinand)
March 05 - Glasgow Barrowlands (Supporting Franz Ferdinand)
March 06 - Manchester Academy (Supporting Franz Ferdinand)
March 08 - Birmingham Academy (Supporting Franz Ferdinand)
March 09 - London Hammersmith Apollo (Supporting Franz Ferdinand)
March 10 - Southampton, Guildhall (Supporting Franz Ferdinand)
May 17 – ATP @ Minehead, Somerset
In a musical climate currently overflowing with flavour of the month hipsters, overblown pomp-rockers and fleeting pretenders to the pop throne, the San Diego- raised, LA-based quartet of Matt Lamkin (vocals, guitar), Matty McLoughlin (guitar), David Lantzman (bass) and Brian Hill (drums) play a refreshingly stripped-down, revved-up, no-frills brand of raucous rock and roll that, for all of its nods to the past, sounds, miraculously enough, sharply modern yet effortlessly cool, cutting a swathe through anything else out there in the process.
After only cementing the line up in February, The Soft Pack – originally called the Muslims – stormed CMJ in New York, packing out venues both big and small, generating breathless coverage in everything from the New York Times to Rolling Stone. Coveted supports with the likes of the Breeders, The Last Shadow Puppets, Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand in the US followed. Soon they captured the intrigue of the NME who instantly named them one of their 10 bands to watch in 2009 without having released a note this side of the pond! Now, the UK will get their first scintillating taste of The Soft Pack this side of the pond with this, their debut single 'Nightlife'.
So “Nightlife” crashes through like an adrenaline shot straight to the cerebral cortex, while “Brightside” swaggers with a ragged, propulsive charm. Taken together, it is a potent double hit of good old-fashioned incendiary rock and roll, the kind they don’t make any more; the kind that is primed and ready to set 2009 ablaze. Light the touch paper and stand well back.
‘(The Soft Pack) are already twice as good as your current rubbish favourite band and are shortly going to be even better’ - NME
‘If 2009 isn’t their year, something will have gone terribly wrong.' - Track of the Day, Qthemusic.com
‘(The Soft Pack’s) blurry, disaffected rock reminds us of New York rock when the The Strokes were the biggest band ever, and also Spacemen 3 minus the reverb and plus a bunch of dirt.’ – The Fader
‘Bold garage rock…a raw, real sound that’s tangible and gritty’ – Clash
TRACKLISTING:
A. Nightlife
B.Brightside
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
Feb 15 – NME Brats Show with Black Lips @ The Academy, Islington
Feb 17 – White Heat @ Madame Jo Jo’s
Feb 19 – Instore @ Rough Trade East
Feb 19 – Vice Presents…@ the Old Blue Last
Feb 26 – Moshi Moshi Night @ Hoxton Bar & Grill
March 04 - Glasgow Barrowlands (Supporting Franz Ferdinand)
March 05 - Glasgow Barrowlands (Supporting Franz Ferdinand)
March 06 - Manchester Academy (Supporting Franz Ferdinand)
March 08 - Birmingham Academy (Supporting Franz Ferdinand)
March 09 - London Hammersmith Apollo (Supporting Franz Ferdinand)
March 10 - Southampton, Guildhall (Supporting Franz Ferdinand)
May 17 – ATP @ Minehead, Somerset
