I'm Not Afraid Of You

The Witching Hour

...And I Walked Along

Breathe Fire Pt. 2

Alien Autopsy

Fists In The Dark

Soft Black is a collective of musicians led by the voice and songs of Vincent Cacchione.  Described by Rolling Stone as a “bizarro world Neil Young living in an Edward Gorey cartoon,” the band’s cast of collaborators have included members of DIIV, Beach Fossils, Air Waves, Friends, and Lost Boy?

After a lengthy absence from the recording scene Cacchione and his accomplices reemerge with the single most powerful distillation of Soft Black's vision:  Midas Tongue.  

Midas Tongue spins its tale with visceral, Mapplethorpe style visualizations over an emotive blend of Shoegaze and Kraut-Rock.  The lyric’s gritty images and simmering rage are matched by tribal tom-tom’s, fuzz bass, and sinister Farfisa.  Tension builds and releases with the finest whammy bar guitar work this side of the Creation Records catalog.  The track culminates with the authority skewering: “you’re a liar, you’ve got a Midas tongue,” punctuated by a Space Echo feeding back as we watch the king’s head roll. 

 During Soft Black’s absence Cacchione released several records with his bedroom-dwelling, pop project Caged Animals on the UK’s Lucky Number Music and has become an esteemed collaborator in the fiction podcasting world, working with John Cameron Mitchell on his ground-breaking Anthem podcast, as well as shows by Julian Koster of Neutral Milk Hotel and John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats.  

Cacchione also produced the debut album Stubborn Heart by infamous author and John Cale collaborator, Larry “Ratso” Sloman, an opportunity which gave Cacchione the chance to work with Nick Cave and receive seals of approval from Leonard Cohen, Cale, Bob Dylan, and Hal Willner.

With these disparate creative experiences at his wings, Cacchione and company embark on the next, exciting chapter of Soft Black.

Midas Tongue

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