Soft Animals

Bongos, guitar, and plenty of cowbell. New York electro-pop duo Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern embrace it all. Take “Drinkee”, their first-ever release. Inspired by Brazilian poet Chacal, it’s sung in Portuguese and is a hedonistic fusion of just about everything fun you’d want to hear on a dancefloor. The rest of *Soft Animals* follows its lead spectacularly.

While Sophie infuses rhythmic vocals similar to Kundalini yoga chanting, Tucker likes to add in touches of early Crystal…