The Soft Pack - Nightlife
It was probably not a great surprise when, earlier this month, sloppy San Diego art
rockers The Muslims metamorphosed into The Soft Pack. As iconoclastic names go, it was a bold statement but no doubt some smart business brain at their label let them know that fame might be a little sweeter if it came without a host of fundamentalists foaming at the mouth.
Their first single Nightlife is a bass-driven slab of good time rock that recalls the self-consciously dumb sing along delights of Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers and the sinister groove of Richard Hell & The Voidoids. With its “you work work work all the day and all the night, you’ve got nothing to show, so you’re looking for some nightlife” refrain, it’s a ready-made Friday night indie club classic.
The B-side, Brightside, is a similarly charming clatter, cut from the same ‘70s NY punk cloth as the A-side and radiating a Halogen bright love of the rock’n’roll lifestyle. If you stuck Iggy Pop, Jonathan Richman and The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas in a bag and kicked them down the stairs, this is the sound you’d get. If 2009 isn’t their year, something will have gone terribly wrong.
10:28 AM | 15/12/2008
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