Description:	CD on Heavenly
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Indie Rock
	Label:	Heavenly
	Price:	£10.59
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5
...according to our Brian on 28 January 2010.

The Soft Pack. Oh, the Soft Pack. A killer debut album would be expected of this San Diego 4 piece had they not already done one under that old contentious name. So they've merely delivered a thoroughly enjoyable, straight forward, no-frills garage pop album full of cute, familiar hooks and brief excitable songs that rattle along merrily, breathlessly. These songs also have an occasional tendency to suddenly vomit thrillingly caustic guitar solos down the side of your face making you giggle! I'm certainly not remotely disappointed as they've effortlessly straddled the void between being a powerful underground band & a modern indie pop success story - the single 'Answer to Yourself', for instance, sticks in your head like a superglue smeared nail shot at point blank range by your local friendly maniac. Throughout the course of this record there are many fantastic, thrilling tunes & hardly any tracks that could be bracketed as "filler". In today's saturated, baffling market, that constitutes a great album, unpretentious, old-skool & boisterous with all their embryonic hallmarks intact! Proper ace! CD/LP on Heavenly

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Sound clips for The Soft Pack by The Soft Pack (The Muslims): on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Heavenly, HVNLP76CD, £10.59.

What their label says...

TRACKLISTING:
1. C'mon 2. Down on Loving 3. Answer to Yourself 4. Move Along 5. Pull Out 6. More or Less 7. Tides of Time 8. Flammable 9. Mexico 10. Parasites
                          
OVERVIEW:
The Soft Pack, the most exciting young band in America right now, are set to release their self titled debut long player on Heavenly Recordings 1st February 2010. An album that is set to be the best rock-garage-pop-punk debut of next year.
 
To record their eponymous debut The Soft Pack decamped to an apartment in New York to work with Eli Janney, once of 90s alternative rock behemoths Girls Against Boys but latterly a much in-demand producer and mixer. Having fleshed out the songs already in their native the LA Matt Lamkin, Matt McLoughlin, Dave Lantzman and Brian Hill recorded their classic 30 minute debut (with the exception of album closer ‘Parasites’ which was recorded under the bands former moniker ‘The Muslims’) album in under a month.
 
The Soft Pack sold out copies of their 7” single ’Answer To Yourself’ (imagine Nirvana covering a New Order and you’re getting close) a week before the single was even released, quite a feat! Furthermore, the LA foursome were in town at the start of November to perform a series of shows across the country and anyone who saw their no holds barred live performances will attest, these shows are not be missed.