SOFT VEIN

If you are into Darkwave from US you should check out Soft Vein, the album "Through Blinds", out through Artoffact Records are set for release next week on the 17st January and you can get a taste from the album at Spotify. 

The album contains 10 great songs with a good mix of both Darkwave, a bit of Post-Punk and Electronic Pop. 

The latest release "Gray Space" contains three of the tracks that will be on the album, so a perfect taste how it going to sound. 

Pressrelease: 

Observations on love, lust and the human condition from a passionately detached narrator. SOFT VEIN, the electronic project of songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Justin Chamberlain, blends elements of darkwave, industrial, EBM and electro-pop, with the aim to embrace duality, creating a sound equally inspired by romance and cynicism, by nostalgia and modernity, by the warm ache of love, desire and yearning - and the cold reality of longing, loneliness and loss. 

Beds of cascading synthesizers and dreamy guitars reveal an aching sentimentality. Hypnotic rhythms pump and throb from drum machines and bass synthesizers. Strange, metallic percussion and sonic textures fill the spaces between, sounding all at once like obsolescence and futurism, framing perfectly Chamberlain’s sensual vocals; the soft cries of a narrator peering through blinds - observing, longing, and waiting for the unknown. 

SOFT VEIN was formed in 2022, debuting with a pair of singles, ‘GIVEUPTHEGHOST’ and ‘VIOLENTIA’, garnering a cult following in the Los Angeles darkwave scene and that would continue to grow. In late 2023, SOFT VEIN signed to Artoffact Records and released his debut album, ‘PRESSED IN GLASS,’ Praised for its unique sound, alt press outlet POST-PUNK.COM said the record “...paints a vivid picture of desperation and lust in the dark, but with a strangely romantic bend.” 

After performing select tour dates, including headline shows, festivals and notable support slots, SOFT VEIN returned to the studio to record his sophomore album ‘THROUGH BLINDS.’ Inspired this time by a sense of loneliness, and by his observations on his own life, and the experiences of others, the record sees Chamberlain expanding and evolving upon his unique brand of darkly romantic, industrial-tinged electronic music from a new perspective - creating a unique blend of “nostalgic futurism” and eschewing the icy cold landscape and aesthetics of the first album in favor of heat, desire and fantasy.

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