Total Decay

Follow up to The Soft Moon’s critically acclaimed self-titled LP! “The Soft Moon’s impressive, immersive self-titled debut appeared courtesy of Captured Tracks at the end of 2010– a time when folks were more concerned with Holidays than post-apocalyptic industrial-pop– so it managed to escape some of the “best of” lists it should’ve haunted. The San Francisco trio, led by founder Luis Vasquez and featuring an ancillary member who does flickering live visuals that’d make sense with Bauhaus the band and/or the movement, is returning with an EP, Total Decay, out on Halloween, again via Captured Tracks. The title track’s a swirling, heaving trip, one more deeply entrenched in nihilistic bleakness than previous material. ” -Pitchfork

San Francisco's Luis Vasquez returns with another collection drawing from the coldest, most metallic zeniths of post-punk and industrial rock. The EP's intense, controlled-dosage brevity helps it rise above last year's self-titled debut.

If emptiness is the only thing you have to convey, why make music? It’s a question Luis Vasquez might have asked himself at least once during the making of Total Decay, the EP that follows the eponymous debut by his one-man project, The Soft Moon. Like its predecessor, Total Decay shivers with oblivion. Drawing on the…

Luis Vasquez already seemed pretty comfortable with the dark side of his music on the Soft Moon's self-titled debut album, but he dives even deeper into it on the Total Decay EP.

Born from an enveloping starkness, the self-titled Soft Moon record remains one of 2011's nicest surprises.