Soft Sounds, by The Velvet Crush

Soft Sounds

by The Velvet Crush

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1.	Staying Found 02:35	buy track
2.	Don't Take Me Down 02:35	buy track
3.	Rollin' in My Sleep 03:12	buy track
4.	Some Kind of Light 01:45	buy track
5.	Save Me a Place 02:59	buy track
6.	In Your Time 02:38	buy track
7.	Forever, for Now 02:59	buy track
8.	She Goes On 03:11	buy track
9.	Vanishing Point 02:10	buy track
10.	Duchess 03:18	buy track
11.	Party Line (Samba) 02:00	buy track
12.	Late in the Day 04:07	buy track

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Soft Sounds is the first album of new Velvet Crush material since 1999’s Free Expression (Bobsled), and is unlike anything the current band, now a duo, has ever done. Drummer Ric Menck mostly takes five while multi-instrumentalist Paul Chastain plays and sings the mid-life blooz. Recorded over a two-year period at Matthew Sweet's house in Los Angeles and Chastain's music room in Rhode Island, Soft Sounds wasn't an easy record for the boys to make. Life just kept getting in the way. At one point they even figured on trashing the whole thing - too sad, too personal, too much to take - but here it is, all guts and glory, the perfect bummer to end the summer.

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released October 8, 2002

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Action Musik Urbana, Illinois

Action Musik was created in 1998 by Ric Menck & Paul Chastain as an imprint focusing on Velvet Crush's reissues, issues, side projects, and etc. Manufactured, distributed & promoted by Parasol Label Group.

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