Other Voices Records proudly present
SOFT RIOT “Fiction Prediction” CD/MC/LP
File under: minimal synth, synth-pop, experimental, industrial
Purchase your copies: http://othervoicesrecords.bigcartel.com/artist/soft-riot
“I think we’re going to hear a lot more about Jack Duckworth and Soft Riot in future. I certainly hope so as he’s a real talent deserving to be recognised.”
- Friedrichstrasse, May 2012
“Soft Riot en masse, is what it’s refusing to do. Like the tension-soaked soundtrack to a robotic mob, just on the rink of anarchy.”
- Mollie Wells, Mishka Blogin NYC
“Soft Riot‘s attempt at capturing the moment via of the medium of EBM works eerily well.”
- 20 Jazz Funk Greats
“Jack Duckworth, the man behind Soft Riot, creates sci-fi stories through psychedelic electro wonder work, that for some might take a few listens to comprehend, but nevertheless the album embodies a bizarre inner beauty. In so far as this first album is a musical piece, after the tenth listen you discover a still groundbreaking and innovative sound structure.”
- Sonic Seducer magazine (DE)
“There’s a glimmering haze around the general atmosphere of the [sound], along with almost atonal sounds with monotonic intentions. The contradictions that feed off this sound is astonishing.”
-Invisible Guy (Sweden)
“The epic compositions on Fiction Prediction bring to mind the later work of Scott Walker, or concept albums by The Passage. The music tells stories like the great “irritation” sci-fi cinema of the 70s and 80s. Solaris pop. New Age Wave. The Canadian Jean Michel Jarre of the London underground.”
-Skug (Austria)
Soft Riot is a London based act consisting of one JJD (Jack Duckworth); a former Vancouverite who has clocked over fifteen years of musical output in various bands and projects. With origins from the mid-nineties in the vibrant art-punk/hardcore dominating the West Coast American/Canadian underground at the time (the first EP, “No Longer Stranger”, is the name of a track by 90s hardcore legends Universal Order of Armageddon), JJD followed a trajectory through to the revival of synthbased post-punk music just over a decade or so ago, which spawned a number of highly successful Canadian artists out of that scene. “FICTION PREDICTION” is a collection of songs selected for a first official LP release, these tracks being a confident advancement in the unique and engaging “Soft Riot” sound developed on prior releases. Drawing inspiration from synthesizer-based film soundtracks of yesteryear, drones, early EBM, minimal synth, a dose of psychedelic synthpop and a heavy dose of throbbing appregiated rhythms, Soft Riot is a science-fiction heavy soundscape that narrates the listener through today’s fractured, excessive landscape with hints of black humour Soft Riot, coming from a more punk rock pedigree, often places more focus than the norm on his lyrical content, bringing in detailed pictures and sometimes even linear narrative storylines to subjects such as modern living, technology, surveillance, environment, overpopulation, enlightenment, life elsewhere, forewarning about catastrophic events, vain people in gyms, and not having enough time. The influences come less from other musical artists but more so from written fiction and film —a future predicted by fiction. Where in past musical ventures the path would be aggression, stomp and noise; Soft Riot takes those energies and experiments more with anxiety of tension and unease. A number of these tracks were released in the spring/ summer of 2012 on the limited edition cassette “Hyperbolic Masses”, which was self-released is now completely out of print.
Fiction Prediction available in there formats with different tracklistings:
CD version (limited to 500 copies):
1. Another Drone In Your Head
2. There Just Isn’t Enough Time
3. Cinema Eyes
4. Terminal Love Song
5. Some Abstract Terror
6. The Commuters
7. Write Yourself Into The Void
8. A Spinning Wheel
9. You’ve Got To Use It
10. Your Own Private Underworld
11. Cinema Eyes (Extended Mix)
12. The Commuters (Extended Mix)
Retail price: € 12,90 (In stock!)
MC version (limited to 50 copies):
Side A
01. Another Drone In Your Head
02. There Just Isn’t Enough Time
03. Cinema Eyes
04. Terminal Love Song
05. Some Abstract Terror
06. The Commuters
Side B
07. Write Yourself Into The Void
08. A Spinning Wheel
09. You’ve Got To Use It
10. Your Own Private Underworld
11. How Can You See Them?
12. The Soundtrack To “Hansel And Gretel”
Retail price: € 7,00 (In stock!)
LP version (European version limited to 150 copies):
Side A
01. Another Drone In Your Head
02. There Just Isn’t Enough Time
03. Cinema Eyes
04. Terminal Love Song
05. Some Abstract Terror
Side B
06. The Commuters
07. Write Yourself Into The Void
08. A Spinning Wheel
09. You’ve Got To Use It
10. Your Own Private Underworld
Retail price: € 15,90 (Out October 2013, Pre-order your copies NOW!)