Soft Play have shared a new single, Everything And Nothing.
The raw, emotion-fuelled folk-punk ballad serves as the latest preview of the duo's first new album in six years, 'Heavy Jelly', which is due out on July 19 via BMG.
Led by mandolin and violin, the reflective song steps away from the scrappy, flat out punk energy of their previous singles Act Violently, Mirror Muscles and Punk's Dead. Vocalist Isaac Holman explained in a statement:
"I started writing the words in lockdown in the depths of a mental health breakdown. My good mate Bailey had just passed away, Laurie had not long lost his partner, Emma to cancer. It was one thing after the next. I got to the line about Bailey and couldn’t for the life of me think of what to say next, so I left it where it was.
"Three years later (last year) I went round to Laurie’s and he had just got this mandolin, we laid down the instrumental and I remembered I had these words in the notes on my phone. Laurie asked me what it was about and I was having trouble explaining it, then he said "so it’s just like everything and nothing." We demo’d the tune and took it to the studio (lyrics still unfinished). During that stint, I kept seeing people that looked like Bailey, which unlocked the next line of the tune and allowed the rest to come out.’"
Multi-instrumentalist Laurie Vincent added: "These past few years have been really hard for so many people. The song and video encapsulates the journeys we've all been on: loss, love, rebirth, it's the cycle of life. Raw pain and bitter beauty."
Isaac and Laurie performed at The Great Escape and Bearded Theory festival in May, and appear at Download festival later in June, Truck and Tramlines in July, and Y Not? and Boardmasters in August.
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