Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? is hypnotic, healing, and hopeful
The Soft Pink Truth's latest album, 'Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?', marks a shift for Drew Daniel toward a more organic, spontaneous, and optimistic sound. The record moves away from the heavy sampling of his previous work with Matmos, favoring live instrumentation and ambient textures to create a healing meditation on global political instability.
Why it matters
This album highlights a significant evolution in the creative process of a prominent experimental musician, demonstrating how artists are using collaborative, live-instrumentation-focused music to process and respond to modern political anxiety.
Matmos are an incredibly accomplished duo between their own solo records like the masterpiece A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure and production classic Bjork records like Vespertine. But Drew Daniel, one half of Matmos, is fiendishly prolific. When he’s not literally dreaming up new viral music genres, he’s also putting out records under the banner of The Soft Pink Truth.
Where Matmos usually focuses on a specific musical experiment — using only samples of medical procedures or building instruments out of PVC tubing — Soft Pink Truth goes wherever Daniel’s whims take him. That might be a house record. It might be a bunch of black metal covers. Or, in the case of Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?, it could be a shockingly beautiful and optimistic meditation on the rise of global fascism.
[Media: https://thesoftpinktruth.bandcamp.com/album/shall-we-go-on-sinning-so-that-grace-may-increase]
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