The Soft Moon is readying a new LP, Deeper, set for release next year on March 31st via Captured Tracks. While Luis Vasquez had claimed that future Soft Moon endeavors, after the Zeros LP, would be more band oriented, a move to Venice, Italy in 2013 found the artist on his own in foreign surroundings. If “Black” is any indication, such conditions were ripe for a new batch of bleak, industrial output! Exchanging his Suicide-leaning krautrock throb and icy cold wave rhythms for techno’s four to the floor, here, he melts the form down into a seductive, obsidian colored syrup, as a fog machine releases clouds of wet, black smoke. Steam pistons and a heartbeat pulse give this track it’s cyberpunk core, while Vasquez’s menacingly whispered slogans, pointed and existential, conjure up Trent Reznor from The Downward Spiral daze, but minus the over-sized ego. It seems that working alone suits Vasquez, and as he enters his fifth year of production as The Soft Moon, he continues to hone his abject vision into something seductive, and ultimately accessible for those willing to brave their dark side.
