Strawbie wrote Soft Focus the way you'd keep a diary of late nights — one track at a time, mostly after everyone else had gone to bed. It's her first album, and it sounds like it: unhurried, a little unresolved, made for the hours when the room goes quiet and your thoughts finally get loud.
The record moves between ambient electronics, hazy melodies, warm analog textures, and something close to nostalgia for a place that doesn't exist. Seventeen instrumentals, no vocals, nothing that asks for your attention — which is exactly why it holds it. This is music built to be lived inside rather than listened to.
Side A is the night beginning. Side B is somewhere past two a.m.
Listen
Three from the record, in full.
- A1Soft Fading Memory
- A6Midnight in the Library
- B9Pink Moon
Tracklist
Side A
- Soft Fading Memory
- Meet Me in the Lobby
- Mist
- Cantilever
- Funny Bunny
- Midnight in the Library
- Cherry Colored Smoke
- Cloud Runner
Side B
- Pink Moon
- Art of Focus
- Dreamcast
- Soaked Love
- Stay
- Timing is Everything
- Hacienda
- 99 Dreams
- idkbb
First edition of 100
On Vinyl
Signed and numbered by Strawbie. A hundred copies ofSoft Focus, pressed once. When they're gone, they're gone.
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