Feeling festive? Yes? Right, come back to me when you’ve listened to this.
Few artists have the ability to simultaneously thrill and depress as acutely as the extraordinary Soap & Skin. The Austrian singer’s debut, Lovetune for Vacuum, remains amongst the most disturbing records I own, full as it is with unremitting, beautiful bleakness.
‘Boat Turns Towards The Port’, taken from the forthcoming Narrow EP, suggests that black (or, rather, a deep, deep shade of grey) remains Soap & Skin’s colour of choice. The sound of a personal tragedy writ particularly large, it is compulsive in much the same way that it is impossible not to look at the remains of a car crash on the motorway.
Not feeling so Christmassy now, are you?
- Pip Blom announce first independent release, Grip EP
- Real Estate announce compilation album, The Wee Small Hours: B-Sides and Other Detritus 2011-2025
- The Itch sign with Fiction/I OH YOU and launch double single, "The Influencer" and "Co-Conspirator"
- GRÓA announce new album, Drop P and share double single, "ugh" / "beauty tips"
- salute shares Hudson Mohawke remix of "saving flowers" featuring Rina Sawayama
- Hotline TNT reveal new album preview, “Candle”
- Sufjan Stevens unveils previously unheard "Death With Dignity (Demo)"
Get the Best Fit take on the week in music direct to your inbox every Friday
Car Seat Headrest
The Scholars
Model/Actriz
Pirouette
Samantha Crain
Gumshoe
