{"id":11766,"date":"2014-12-02T12:41:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T17:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=11766"},"modified":"2017-01-26T19:55:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T00:55:39","slug":"soft-moon-announce-new-album-reveal-new-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=11766","title":{"rendered":"The Soft Moon announce new album + reveal new track &#8216;Black&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big high fives all around because The Soft Moon are back\u00a0with the\u00a0details of their new album, &#8216;Deeper&#8217;. Luis Vasquez claimed The Soft Moon&#8217;s sophomore album &#8216;Zeros&#8217; was his last as a solo artist. However, after\u00a0moving to Venice, Italy in 2013\u00a0and being\u00a0alone in new, foreign surroundings, Vasquez completely withdrew into himself and learned what he knew all along: The Soft Moon has always been one man&#8217;s vision. The result of this period of intense introspection is his most personally reflective and focused album to date, &#8216;Deeper,&#8217; which is due out March 31, 2014 via\u00a0Captured Tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Today, he also shares the first taste of &#8216;Deeper&#8217;:\u00a0a super dark, throbbing new single <em>Black&#8230;and g<\/em>et ready to put this scorcher on repeat. Watch the strobing, warping text video via YouTube or listen via Souncloud below.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iigmNuZRlqU&#8221; theme=&#8221;light&#8221;]<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F175363897&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=bdbab8\"><\/iframe>\n<p><strong>More about &#8216;Deeper&#8217;?<\/strong> While Zeros was written and recorded between long days on the road, &#8216;Deeper&#8217; was begat from an almost primal urge to recoil from the world and experience total solitude. During the writing process, Vasquez pushed himself to discover the reality and nightmare of living with yourself, in entirely foreign surroundings with nothing and no one to fall back on.<\/p>\n<p>Stepping back and letting inspiration fall where it may, Vasquez only had one goal in mind for his third album: to pen his most emotional record yet. Between frequent visits to Berlin, Vasquez retreated to Venice&#8217;s Hate Studios, located in the mountains near electronic guru and spiritual anchor Giorgio Moroder&#8217;s hometown.<\/p>\n<p>At Hate, he worked for almost a year with producer Maurizio Baggio to piece together Deeper, only completing the album in August 2014. While maintaining the stark sonic formula so indicative of The Soft Moon&#8217;s music &#8212; that bass that reeks of chorus, those unrelenting, mechanized beats, that wailing synthesizer and those eerily, angular guitar lines that worm into your ears and never leave &#8212; Baggio also worked to refine the album&#8217;s gothic palette, leaving Vasquez to concentrate more intensely on songwriting and singing than ever before:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never worked so closely with someone before. Working with Maurizio felt right and I completely opened up to him during the entire process. I finally felt the urge to express myself more verbally with this record and I was able to focus more on songwriting rather than just experimenting with soundscapes.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The voice of The Soft Moon has never been more clear and honest than it is on this record. With eerie, immersive tracks like the dogged <em>Far<\/em> and slow, beautifully melancholic <em>Wasting<\/em> (the first track written for &#8216;Deeper&#8217;), the album is a penetrating portrait of Vasquez as he wrestles thoughts of suicide, vulnerability and what it means to heal. By facing the most hopeless parts of himself without illusion and putting his past demons to bed, the creation of &#8216;Deeper&#8217; was an intense personal exploration of existence for Vasquez &#8212; old wounds were forcibly opened, deep anger and paranoia were manipulated into song &#8212; and he did not emerge unchanged. &#8216;Deeper&#8217; may have delivered Vasquez back to the waking world, but it willingly drags us further into The Soft Moon&#8217;s dark, euphonic universe once more.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Deeper.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11769\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Deeper.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"Deeper\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Deeper.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Deeper.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Deeper.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8216;Deeper&#8217; track listing:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Inward<br \/>\n2. Black<br \/>\n3. Far<br \/>\n4. Wasting<br \/>\n5. Wrong<br \/>\n6. Try<br \/>\n7. Desertion<br \/>\n8. Without<br \/>\n9. Feel<br \/>\n10. Deeper<br \/>\n11. Being<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pre-Order <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/deeper\/id940215623\" target=\"_blank\">Deeper<\/a> on iTunes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Big high fives all around because The Soft Moon are back\u00a0with the\u00a0details of their new album, &#8216;Deeper&#8217;. Luis Vasquez claimed The Soft Moon&#8217;s sophomore album <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=11766\" title=\"The Soft Moon announce new album + reveal new track &#8216;Black&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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},"categories":[23,28,30],"tags":[2585,217,2584,2586,1206],"class_list":["post-11766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-black","tag-captured-tracks","tag-deeper","tag-luis-vasquez","tag-the-soft-moon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/15408a93-08d7-4e3f-b05b-2dc72648dac4-e1485478515582.jpg?fit=500%2C367&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-33M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19123,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=19123","url_meta":{"origin":11766,"position":0},"title":"The Soft Moon announces Deeper Remixed Vol 1. &#038; Vol. 2 limited 12&#8243;\u0094 + shares new Phase Fatale remix of \u0093&#8217;Desertion\u0094&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"December 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Following the release of his third studio album 'Deeper' earlier this year via Captured Tracks, Luis Vasquez aka\u00a0The Soft Moon has announced the release of 'Deeper Remixed VOL. 1' and 'Deeper Remixed VOL. 2'.\u00a0Both 12\"s are\u00a0co-released by Captured Tracks and the Berlin-based record label aufnahme + wiedergabe. 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