The Soft City

The Soft City are a five piece group from New York City: Dora, Jason, Kyle, Turner and Phil. The Soft City is their debut album. They began life as the solo project of Phil Sutton, formerly of British indie-pop types Comet Gain and Kicker. Sutton, with the help of various friends, recorded a three-track EP, The Soft City, released by Cloudberry Records, in 2007. After moving to New York in 2008, Sutton recruited Dora Lubin (vocals) and Jason Corace (A Boy Named Thor) (guitars) to make The Soft City a band. Kyle Forester (Ladybug Transistor, Crystal Stilts) joined the three-piece in the studio to help them record their self-titled debut LP, engineered and produced by Ladybug's Gary Olson and Sutton. The album, with liner notes by David Feck (Comet Gain), was recorded quickly over ten days in the summer of 2009, and features eight songs by Sutton, and two by Corace. Influenced by past and recent groups (The Go-Betweens, Felt, Belle and Sebastian, Comet Gain) and by the sounds of girl group and French Yeh-Yeh, The Soft City is a classic indie-pop/jangly guitar record with added electric organs. The songs are two or three minutes long, with hooks and choruses, and are about heartache, love, loneliness, city living, friendship, youthful indiscretions, dancing, and falling stars.