• Sign In
• Site Tour
• Register for Free Account

Soft Metals Resources

Websites

• Official Soft Metals Website
• Soft Metals on Facebook
• Soft Metals on Twitter
• Soft Metals on Myspace

Other Artists Like Soft Metals

• Computer Magic
• Prince Rama
• Glass Candy
• Laurel Halo

Soft Metals Profile Page

Albums by Soft Metals

Cover	Artist / Album	Category	Rating	User Rating	Buy
	Soft Metals Soft Metals (Captured Tracks 2011)	Rock / Electronic / Pop	N/R	0/10

• Log In To Add Albums

• Biography
• Comments

Soft Metals is a multi-disciplinary electronic duo from Portland, Oregon now residing in Los Angeles, California. Its members Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall were brought together through a common love of 1970s and 80s synthesizer music and began writing and recording songs together in the spring of 2009. Inspiration came to them by way of experimental electronic sounds, film soundtracks, early industrial music, minimal synth, house, techno, synth pop, krautrock, psychedelic rock, and shoegaze. Ian and Patricia share songwriting duties and compose the music together before writing lyrics and adding vocals. Their songs are built from moody, improvised sessions together using exclusively electronic instruments. The meaning of the raw music they make is explored and interpreted afterwards with lyrical themes ranging from life experience, films, literature, history, science, love, conflict, and death. Soft Metals prefer to express themselves freely rather than adhere to a particular genre. This freedom gives them a diverse sound somewhere between dance music, austere synthetic pop, and experimental electronic composition. Their two best known songs, “The Cold World Melts” and “Psychic Driving” are demonstrations of this varied sound. “The Cold World Melts” is driving, assertive, and passionate. “Psychic Driving” is delicate, introverted, and vulnerable. Some of their songs remain in their unpolished improvised form to pay homage to authenticity, spontaneity, the joy of sound, and experimentation while others are studio based exercises, fusing new and old production technologies.

Soft Metals is signed to Captured Tracks and released their first record, an 5 song EP titled “The Cold World Melts” in July 2010. Their debut self-titled album came out in July of 2011. FACT magazine called Soft Metals “one of the most accomplished and ambitious of the myriad new synth-pop acts coming out of the States.” The duo have played shows on both coasts of the US and in Mexico City. They have shared the stage with bands ranging from HEALTH and Nitzer Ebb to Glass Candy and Chromatics.

• ROCKthusiast posted an Editorial Emissions entry: "Stone Temple Pilots Return with New Singer"
• SolitaryMan gave Greatest Hits 7/10
• SolitaryMan commented on the album Greatest Hits
• Carlita posted an Editorial Emissions entry: "Interview: Beach"
• Andygreenman added a user review for the album Attention Seeker
• Andygreenman gave Attention Seeker 8/10
• ROCKthusiast posted an Editorial Emissions entry: "RIP Ray Manzarek of The Doors"
• SolitaryMan gave Known Flood 7/10
• SolitaryMan commented on the Editorial Emissions entry titled: ""Right" Time for Franz Ferdinand to Announce New Album"
• hstisgod posted an Editorial Emissions entry: "Video of the Week: The Winter Sounds"
• ROCKthusiast posted an Editorial Emissions entry: "Happy Birthday, Trent and Josh!"
• Carlita posted an Editorial Emissions entry: "Dropkick Murphys rock their "Rose Tattoo" for Boston"
• CharlesMartel commented on the Editorial Emissions entry titled: ""Right" Time for Franz Ferdinand to Announce New Album"
• ROCKthusiast posted an Editorial Emissions entry: ""Right" Time for Franz Ferdinand to Announce New Album"
• Carlito posted an Editorial Emissions entry: "Malkovich - "Lies" video"
• Carlita posted an Editorial Emissions entry: "Mingling with Media Masters MediaPass CEO Malcolm CasSelle a"
• Carlito gave Great Expectations 8/10
• SolitaryMan commented on the album The Second Mechanism
• SolitaryMan gave The Second Mechanism 9/10
• SolitaryMan commented on the Editorial Emissions entry titled: "The Body, “Master, We Perish” EP (At A Loss)"