The Softies - Winter PageantOn their second album, Winter Pageant, The Softies move forward with focused delight. It's the combination of Jen Sbragia (All Girl Summer Fun Band) and Rose Melberg (Tiger Trap, Gaze, Go Sailor) that molds The Softies' panoply: feathers and thorns, fawn and fearless, fable and friction. Originally released in 1997, Winter Pageant is the drama of utter melancholia documenting the broken promises, missed phone calls, conversations stalled, love lost.

He started almost every song on the piano

where the concrete meets the forest

glitches and ‘clickity click clicks’ (a variation on the standard Bejar ‘la da das’) focuses on how those who dictate our relationships with music and media are susceptible to error

The Wave Pictures

whilst also trying to take some power back and form my truest identity

hand signed by Ron Carter

Their secretive heroics now almost beggar belief

simmering moments like Gordon‰۪s ‰ÛÏShaking Hell‰۝ and Renaldo‰۪s chimy

’ Airplay was considerable

Includes a cover of Crime's 'Hot Wire My Heart'

it's cinematic and captivating throughout

Wailing Heart