Escape Forever by Soft Kill

“Escape Forever” is a signal from the past, a loose thread that pulls us from our nostalgia filled bedrooms into our present moment. Both a loving homage to teenage memories and an intense response to our current milieu. Soft Kill’s Escape Forever is thirteen raw tunes, musings and samples with Chicago artist RBTayskii as the spiritual tour guide. The record is delightfully centered around just the painful and joyful moment of creation, where guitars and melodies are supreme. Soft Kill attempts to grapple with the chaos of the world coming back to harmony, to reconcile with the past, to embrace it. A reverie on how to remain humble and intentional in an ever more complicated world. As Emerson once said we are artists because we are unsuccessful people living in an unsuccessfully realized world. “Escape Forever” tries to find transcendence in the knuckle bruising nightmare we came from instead of the realm of the phenomenal, praised and often overreaching. It harkens back to another era, but “Escape Forever” is decidedly the sound of us now.

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Tracklist

1.	Cousin	0:11

2.	I Wish You'd Go	3:07

3.	Love, Sosa	2:50

4.	Joy is a Crime	3:47

5.	Over East Radio	0:43

6.	Come Hang From The Roof Tops	4:05

7.	My Section	3:39

8.	Kia Boys Don't Cry	2:22

9.	Please Hold	0:42

10.	Fools	2:50

11.	Englewood	3:34

12.	Ready To Die	3:34

13.	Escape Forever	4:34

Credits

released April 12, 2024

Recorded by Tobias Grave and Dave Collis.
Mixed by Philip Odom.
Mastered by Will Yip.

"Cousin" features a sample of "Bouncing Calypso" by Freddy Gumbo.
"Over East Radio" features a sample of "Natesha (Compassion)" by 4 Mars.
"Please Hold" features a sample of "A Walk For Two #2" (Alternate Version) by Franco Campanino.

Cover photo by Letitia Tucker.
Art and layout by Volodea Biri.

All songs by Soft Kill.

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