For years, Canadian twin duo Softcult have created grunge-y shoegaze with a razor-sharp edge that conjures up radical change from inside. Their songs often name for social and political reform, fully uncompromising of their messages, and their selfmade SCripture zines proceed these vital conversations by means of artwork, poetry, and essays, by each the band and their readers. All of it evokes the fantastic spirit of riot grrrl, in search of to raise up these round them and discover methods to higher their communities. Their new EP, Heaven, takes a barely totally different method than tasks previous, declaring a society obsessive about the afterlife and, finally, the thought of paradise. “We wished to put in writing concerning the contradictions inside our society, what a perfect world seems like, and the way shut or far we’re from reaching that actuality,” the band say. “Possibly ‘heaven’ could be a place that exists on Earth, in our lives, and the lives of our family members, whereas we’re nonetheless right here to expertise it. As an alternative of fixating on what waits for us within the afterlife, perhaps we should always take note of what we have now right here on Earth, as a result of that, so far as we all know, is the ‘heaven’ we’ll see.”
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After we requested the band to place collectively the influences that formed their Heaven EP, they went above and past, creating their very own zine for us as an alternative. Dive in beneath.
