Something Soft: Vinyl LP Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Side Two opens with three

Side Two opens with three of the year’s newer charting bands: Radiohead with ‘Creep’

Michael & Zelah

distinct yet new

Slaughter of Bruce

straight in your face

Something Soft: Vinyl LP Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Side Two opens with threeSomething Soft, the second full length album by Irish post punk firebrands M(h)aol, is anything but. From the first note of its propulsive opening track to the distorted cries of its last, Something Soft feels antagonistic to the very concept of softnesssonically and thematicallytaking an unapologetic approach to intersectional feminism, animal welfare, consumerism, and the struggle to find a place in a world lacking empathy. What M(h)aol offers is