Soft Top Announce Debut Album 'Gathering Dust'

Soft Top announce their debut album ‘Gathering Dust’, alongside the release of a new single, ‘Paving Stones’ (12th March).

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Across the full span of ‘Gathering Dust’, Goodall utilises the ensemble’s orchestral breadth to transform the album's concept into a vivid, widescreen dreamscape. While the subject matter flows between heavy themes, the arrangements remain lush and buoyant, ensuring the record never sinks into melodrama. ‘Gathering Dust’ is a strange, shimmering beauty; pairing the harmonic complexity of 70s jazz-pop with a raw, modern vulnerability that feels strikingly personal.

‘Paving Stones’ offers a key entry point into the world of Soft Top, introducing the album’s central themes of life, death and the uncertain space in between. The record unfolds as a conceptual narrative, following a character left comatose after being hit by a car on the way to a house party. ‘Your Aching Words’ (released February 13th) served as the opening chapter to the album and each track examines a different facet of that suspended existence: the world continuing without him, the strange pull of “coma-land” and the blurred boundary between reality and imagination.