For years, Canadian twin duo Softcult have created grunge-y shoegaze with a razor-sharp edge that evokes radical change from inside. Their songs continuously name for social and political reform, utterly uncompromising of their messages, and their selfmade SCripture zines proceed these essential conversations by artwork, poetry, and essays, by each the band and their readers. All of it evokes the fantastic spirit of riot grrrl, looking for to carry up these round them and discover methods to higher their communities. Their new EP, Heaven, takes a barely totally different method than initiatives previous, declaring a society obsessive about the afterlife and, finally, the thought of paradise. “We needed to put in writing in regards to the contradictions inside our society, what an excellent world appears like, and the way shut or far we’re from attaining that actuality,” the band say. “Perhaps ‘heaven’ generally is a place that exists on Earth, in our lives, and the lives of our family members, whereas we’re nonetheless right here to expertise it. As a substitute of fixating on what waits for us within the afterlife, perhaps we should always take note of what we now have right here on Earth, as a result of that, so far as we all know, is the ‘heaven’ we are going to see.”
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After we requested the band to place collectively the influences that formed their Heaven EP, they went above and past, creating their very own zine for us as an alternative. Dive in under.
