Soft Kill "Dead Kids R.I.P. City" Color:2xLP Turquoise (/500) The band uses cello (with

The band uses cello (with an electric cello for live shows) to create a gothic sound with occasional Western references

Recorded at Sonic Ranch in Texas with producer Ryan Hewitt (The Avett Brothers

guitarist Stephen Carpenter's heavy wall of sound is astoundingly muscular

an Animal-istic drummer and a bassist well-versed in electro-funk and Peter Hook's high-necked melodies

Another full-throated

Soft Kill "Dead Kids R.I.P. City" Color:2xLP Turquoise (/500) The band uses cello (withA story odyssey of sorts told in ten parts, ten songs each track essentially a character "Dead Kids", produced by David Trumfio (Built To Spill, Wilco, OK Go) and mastered by the legendary Howie Weinberg (The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana), explores, through a beguiling mix of personal memory, allegory, and narrative structures by turns both poetic and stinging, a long and complicated relationship with a dark version of Portland OR. It's songs that