Staff Pick Of The Week

Every week we here at Repo like to pick one record that we can all agree on as being the one thing we can't stop listening to. This week's pick is.....

The Soft Moon - The Soft Moon
(Captured Tracks)

Louis Vasquez, A.K.A. The Soft Moon, brings us music that is Moody, atmospheric and full of wonderful post punk rhythms. This is music that sounds amazing and makes you really take each song apart bit by bit. SM joins Joy division style bass with dark pop guitars making for really capturing moments. The percussion and production are the main contemporary components sort of reminding you of current shoegaze music. The vocals are almost completely lost but in a good way, they're used much more as a texture than something that pops in front of the music. If you looked for them you'd find them, but it seems like that was never the point. Each song begs for comparison to new and old alike but in the end it still feels like an album that is truly it's own.