{"id":44998,"date":"2026-04-10T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=44998"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:47:55","slug":"soft-no-are-done-playing-it-safe-hear-new-single-oxford-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=44998","title":{"rendered":"Soft No are done playing it safe \u2014 hear new single \u2018Oxford Street\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Philly&#8217;s Soft No Just Turned Up the BPM and We&#8217;re Fully Here for It<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Philly indie quintet <strong>Soft No<\/strong> are gearing up to drop their new EP, <strong>&#8216;Super Neutral&#8217;<\/strong>, on local imprint <strong>Abandon Everything Records<\/strong> \u2014 and if the lead single is any indication, they&#8217;ve been holding out on us. In a good way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First things first: go stream <em>Oxford Street<\/em> right now. We&#8217;ll wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2440299826\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=38970192\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/softnophl.bandcamp.com\/album\/oxford-street\">Oxford Street by Soft No<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back? Good. So here&#8217;s the deal \u2014 after a well-received debut EP, Soft No decided to blow up their own formula. Collaborative writing sessions, a collective decision to crank the tempo, and a deliberate effort to let everyone&#8217;s influences bleed in freely. The result is five songs that feel less like a follow-up and more like a band finding a second, sharper gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Oxford Street<\/em> hits like a lost early-2000s emo gem \u2014 think <strong>The Promise Ring<\/strong>, <strong>The Get Up Kids<\/strong>, <strong>The Anniversary<\/strong> \u2014 but filtered through something more jagged and present-tense. Richly-layered synths, strangled melodic guitar lines, urgently expressive vocals, and a pop song structure that sneaks up on you. It&#8217;s the kind of track that sounds familiar and totally fresh at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drummer <strong>Jonathan Martello<\/strong> wrote the music, and it pulled something real out of vocalist <strong>Lannutti<\/strong>. &#8220;<em>I don&#8217;t usually write about specific events in my life<\/em>,&#8221; she says, &#8220;<em>but I&#8217;d been wanting to write a song for years about a crazy night out, and the subsequent morning I had with a friend who passed away. I had the song title picked, but never felt like I had the right outlet for the song until now.<\/em>&#8221; The lyrics land with that kind of weight \u2014 direct, literary, and quietly devastating. One passage in particular stops you cold: <em>Saw you on the street last night \/ A blurry halo of orange light \/ And I can&#8217;t see straight but I remember \/ You said I could do so much better.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist <strong>Austin Lotz<\/strong> summed up the band&#8217;s approach on this one pretty perfectly: &#8220;<em>We did our due diligence to not overly critique these songs. We tapped into everyone&#8217;s tastes, and let the music come out naturally.<\/em>&#8221; Rhythm guitarist <strong>Scott Signorino<\/strong> adds: &#8220;<em>Everybody is more present on this EP.<\/em>&#8221; And honestly, you can feel that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8216;Super Neutral&#8217;<\/strong> \u2014 a title apparently born from the art of keeping the peace with family during politically charged holidays \u2014 is anything but neutral. It&#8217;s an emotionally cathartic, sonically adventurous collection from a band stepping out of its shoegaze comfort zone and into something that refuses to be pinned down by a couple of hyphens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/2sbBMnlbO6wG0QQblQn1YZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#x25b6; Stream <em>Oxford Street<\/em> on Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Philly&#8217;s Soft No Just Turned Up the BPM and We&#8217;re Fully Here for It Philly indie quintet Soft No are gearing up to drop their <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=44998\" title=\"Soft No are done playing it safe \u2014 hear new single \u2018Oxford Street\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[22,23,28,30,1907],"tags":[13476,13422,1909,619,829,13477,4418,10393,925,13475],"class_list":["post-44998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","category-news","tag-abandon-everything-records","tag-alt-rock","tag-emo","tag-indie-rock","tag-new-music","tag-oxford-street","tag-philadelphia","tag-post-hardcore","tag-post-punk","tag-soft-no"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_0269.jpeg?fit=600%2C415&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-bHM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34455,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34455","url_meta":{"origin":44998,"position":0},"title":"Toronto&#8217;s Soft Set announce debut single &#8216;Never Die&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"June 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Dream pop \/ indie rock duo\u00a0Soft Set have announced their debut single\u00a0Never Die, the lead track from their debut EP. 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