{"id":34951,"date":"2020-09-25T17:15:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T21:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34951"},"modified":"2023-04-07T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T16:22:27","slug":"soft-kill-share-single-video-for-roses-all-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34951","title":{"rendered":"Soft Kill share single + video for &#8216;Roses All Around&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From their long awaited follow up to 2018&#8217;s \u2018Savior,\u2019 Portland\u2019s&nbsp;Soft Kill&nbsp;returns with their new single,&nbsp;<em>Roses All Around<\/em>, which is lifted from their upcoming album \u2018Dead Kids, R.I.P. City\u2019. It&#8217;s dark yet luminous in every sense, from its driving percussive beats, harmonic grooves and melodies, while also creating an opportunity to openly discuss its sociopolitical message that is especially prominent now as Portland has become the epicenter of unrest these past few months.&nbsp;Watch the video clip for <em>Roses All Around<\/em> via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XgMsoYQGrxw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soft Kill had been growing with pretty much every record &#8211; but a deep maturation, achieving a level of emotional intensity that, even for a band known for exactly that, was nothing short of breathtaking and inarguably a high water mark. A story odyssey of sorts told in ten parts, ten songs &#8211; each track essentially a character &#8211;&nbsp;\u2018Dead Kids,\u2019 produced by&nbsp;David Trumfio&nbsp;(Built To Spill, Wilco) and mastered by the legendary&nbsp;Howie Weinberg&nbsp;(The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana), explores, through a beguiling mix of personal memory, allegory, and narrative structures by turns both poetic and stinging, a long and complicated relationship with a dark version of Portland OR. It\u2019s songs that tell of the fractured and fragile legacies of those lost during the city\u2019s last couple decades as it moves from soggy backwater to unheard of growth and tech-fueled transformation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the frantic cascade of guitar that carries <em>Roses All Around<\/em> relentlessly toward the track\u2019s vision of rain-filled gutters overflowing with dashed dreams, to the chiming sorrow and yearning of the steadily pounding <em>Inverness<\/em> where we find a strung out young man sitting in a wheelchair somewhere in downtown Portland accepting what fate has brought him, to <em>Crimey<\/em>\u2019s darkly joyous dance groove and the one-two swan-song punch of apocalyptic dreamscape <em>Oil Burner<\/em> and the mournful, elegiac <em>I Needed the Pain<\/em>, you\u2019ll find the honesty so hard fought for and won through the crucible of&nbsp;\u2018Savior\u2019 paying further dividends on&nbsp;\u2018Dead Kids, R.I.P. City\u2019. Featuring guest vocals by Choir Boy\u2019s Adam Klopp on <em>Matty Rue<\/em> and Tamaryn on <em>Floodgate<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether it\u2019s Hooper Detox choked with cigarette smoke, the grim and grimy downtown doorways, abandoned industrial buildings on N. Interstate, the confinement cells at Inverness Jail or a midnight apartment building rooftop in Northwest, the scenes that backdrop these characters\u2019 stories offer a scuffed amber portrait of a Portland that is no more. It\u2019s the individuals themselves, however, some dead none forgotten, that turn this tour through Tobias\u2019s past into a fever dream memoriam. Though inescapably nostalgic, it\u2019s the type nostalgia that burns with immediacy, like a post-punk John Steinbeck crossed with Robert Smith crossed with Gus Van Sant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two years in the making, desperate, redemptive, its contrast of light and shadow favoring the latter,&nbsp;\u2018Dead Kids, R.I.P. City\u2019 is like no other album in the genre, a kind of doom pop&nbsp;<em>Drugstore Cowboy&nbsp;<\/em>featuring the brave and abandoned, the tender and the afflicted, all teetering in memory on the edge of the city. For all the sadness and pain of addiction haunting it, however, the record, by its very existence, proves that hope doesn\u2019t necessarily win but that, even if at great cost, it can. It\u2019s what makes&nbsp;\u2018Dead Kids, R.I.P. City\u2019 so powerful beyond just the scope of its dark luminous sound and indelible melodies, and is one of the many reasons you\u2019ll carry it with you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ymlpcl6.com\/imgz\/waab_product66--1.jpg?resize=352%2C352&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"352\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ymlpcl6.com\/imgz\/waab_product69--1.jpg?resize=355%2C355&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"355\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Dead Kids, R.I.P. City\u2019 The Board Game&nbsp;is trifold 33&#8243; x 11&#8243; high quality matte&nbsp;lamination on chipboard with litho wrapped finishing, a high quality game board and&nbsp;comes with Red with Black Splatter double LP vinyl, limited to 100, screen printed box, game instructions and game pieces.&nbsp;&nbsp;Welcome to R.I.P. City, the board game set on the MAX train we take a journey through the urban wilderness. Avoid the fare, and climb on board by selecting your token, players can choose to play as a syringe, a trash can, a brick or a gun.&nbsp;Avoid crack clouds, find money on the sidewalk, get chased by dogs, get caught up with bad company, and whatever you do stay out of the gutter, as you travel from Downtown to the Avenue of the Roses. Roll the dice to traverse the incredible gloom filled illustrated world created by local Portland artist David Rugh. Highly playable and an amazing companion piece to the world of the album, \u2018Dead Kids, R.I.P City\u2018 is the perfect activity for these lonely nights, the goal is only to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Dead Kids, R.I.P. City\u2018 is out&nbsp;November 20th&nbsp;via Cercle Social Records\/Cobraside. You can grab it <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/softkillpdx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>From their long awaited follow up to 2018&#8217;s \u2018Savior,\u2019 Portland\u2019s&nbsp;Soft Kill&nbsp;returns with their new single,&nbsp;Roses All Around, which is lifted from their upcoming album \u2018Dead <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34951\" title=\"Soft Kill share single + video for &#8216;Roses All Around&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,28,29,30],"tags":[9499,9501,9497,8193],"class_list":["post-34951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","tag-dead-kids-2","tag-r-i-p-city","tag-roses-all-around","tag-soft-kill"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DB65C5A7-C40D-4A63-852F-D131797F2E99.jpeg?fit=500%2C333","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-95J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35165,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35165","url_meta":{"origin":34951,"position":0},"title":"Soft Kill share new single + video for &#8216;Floodgate&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"October 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Portland post-punk five piece\u00a0Soft Kill\u00a0have shared their third single, Floodgate featuring singer-songwriter\u00a0Tamaryn. 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