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This House

Soft Rains Will Come (LP)

Label: Pink Cotton Candy Records

Format: LP

Genre: Experimental

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€21.20
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"Soft Rains Will Come" is the second collaboration between G.W. Sok and Ignacio Córdoba, following their 2024 experimental collage album "Is This A House". This time, the pair rebuild their fragmented sound within a band - This House - alongside drummer Søren Høi and synthesist Kristian Tangvik, turning abstraction into something loud, rhythmic, and alive. At its core, the record treats rhythm as architecture. Every instrument acts as percussion, each with its own colour and instability, orbiting around Høi’s asymmetric drumming and Sok’s unmistakable voice. Córdoba’s production pushes his collage techniques toward a more physical tension: songs that are repetitive yet constantly shifting, cycling through breaks and build-ups until the sound itself begins to disintegrate. Guitars scrape, synths pulse, and voices fall into noise. The result is music both tight and unruly, dirty yet articulate.

The band’s distinct personality emerges through a restless kind of songwriting - shifting from hybrids of electronica and guitar music ("Out in the Westlands", "Man Joke", "Burned House"), to crooked rock songs with unexpected turns ("Oh My Butterfly", "Shoelace"), to tender experiments like "Introduction to Poetry" and the melodic, almost pop-inflected "Mermaids" and "There Will Come Soft Rains". Córdoba, who produced, recorded, and mixed the record, reimagines his collage techniques with precise intent, aiming for a sound that is “tight & sloppy, dirty & focused, roomy & in your face, electronic & electric and wild & colorful throughout.” The thematic heart of the album lies in Sok’s lyrical meditations on politics, identity, relationships, and belonging - set within soundscapes that defy genre boundaries, leaning instead toward a hybrid of rock, electronics, and experimental music with vivid, extreme textures. Soft Rains Will Come will be released in Spring 2026 via Pink Cotton Candy Records (DK) in collaboration with Ramble (AU) and Red Wig (DE). 

Details
Cat. number: PCC0022
Year: 2026