THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Soft builds on the massive success of Bones UK’s 2019 self-titled debut. The unapologetically rebellious duo return with a visceral, anthemic take on their future-rock mélange of swaggering guitars, gritty electronics, and love-yourself / think-for-yourself lyrics. The 11-tracks are bound by throughlines of massive hooks, bold stylistic cocktails and empowering lyrics.
“It’s everything you loved about the first record, turned up,” says singer-guitarist Rosie Bones. “Keeping things scrappy, raw and real, with enough electronic beats to keep our industrial danceheads happy and enough heartbreakers to keep our romantics listening.”
Written and recorded over five years in diverse locations including London, Los Angeles, Chicago and Texas, the album reaches back to Stax and Motown influences, classic rock ’n’ roll, ’90s electronica and song-based rock. But Soft also offers a spirited fuck you to the status quo. The debut single Won’t Settle defies societal pressures to settle down at a certain age, its ragged stop-start guitar a wakeup slap-in-the-face that features Mike (Mikey Shoes) Shuman from Queens Of The Stone Age.
The London-bred duo of Bones and guitarist Carmen Vandenberg unapologetically speak their truth, exposing the disconnect between the status quo and the glorious world inside their heads through heavy rock riffs and rough-edged electronics. Their self-titled 2019 debut earned them their first Grammy nomination in Best Rock Performance for the highly acclaimed Pretty Waste and a cover of David Bowie’s I’m Afraid of Americans, which have accumulated more than 66 million streams to date. They’ve appeared on The Howard Stern Show and Late Night with Seth Meyers, and toured with Smashing Pumpkins, Bush, Korn, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains, The Cult, The Struts and Tom Morello, to name a few.”
