The Soft Pink Truth - Satie
The Soft Pink Tube - Party Pills
Drew Daniel (of Matmos) has resurrected his side project, the Soft Pink Truth, with a new album of black metal covers, "Why Do The Heathen Rage?" You can listen to (and download) his amazing 25-minute-long cover of Burzum's Rundgang through the soundcloud link above (which will not be on the album, for reasons that Drew speaks articulately about in this wonderful interview). I did not expect another Soft Pink Truth album. There were rumors, for a long time, that Drew was working on a new project, sort of adjacent to SPT, called The Soft Pink Tube, which was to involve songs constructed from YouTube snippets that he'd extracted. One track did actually emerge from The Soft Pink Tube, the excellent (and totally weird) Party Pills (Drew searched the word “party” on YouTube and built a song out of what he found. There’s sort of a main character in this song who talks about sex, drugs, Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper, and people fucking up. The music here is poised and tense). Nothing really followed that. If you've never heard anything from SPT, there were two great albums in two years--Do You Party, which was all original stuff (Satie above is taken from that album), and Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth, also an album of covers (punk and hardcore for that one)--totally recommended too, there is an awesome cover of L. Voag's 'Kicthen,' which is what made me fall in love with this project in the first place.[Pre-order Why Do The Heathen Rage?][Listen to/download Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth?][Listen to/download Do You Party?]