The one-man project of Afro-Cuban, San Francisco-based Luis Vasquez, The Soft Moon have shared the video for 'Far', the second single taken ftom the upcoming album 'Deeper'.
Directed by Y2K's Jason Lester and Severiano Martinez (who also produced last year's EMA '3Jane' video), 'Far' shares similar futuristic sensibilities in its disquieting, foreboding nature.
Moving to Italy in 2013, 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, with one goal in mind for his third album: to pen his most emotional record yet. Between frequent visits to Berlin, Vasquez retreated to Venice’s Hate Studios where 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’s music - the bass that reeks of chorus, those unrelenting, mechanized beats, wailing synthesizer and those eerily, angular guitar lines - 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 'Far' and slow, beautifully melancholic 'Wasting' (the first track written for 'Deeper'), 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 'Deeper' was an intense personal exploration of existence.
'Deeper' is released on March 31 via Captured Tracks.
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