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Soma Cake – The Longest Hug

Tom

I missed the latest EP from Reynosa’s Soma Cake when it came out last month but now it’s got a release on Stupid Decisions, that excellent label which promotes music from the band’s home country Mexico as well as Central and South America. It’s the follow up to 2018’s Girls Bite Harder album and the band continue down the road to melancholy. Fusing dreampop, post-punk and shoegaze the guitars are ably supported by the drum machine/sequencer whilst the songs tell stories full of gloom and woe. Lyrics such as “I couldn’t be happier to die by your kiss”, “feeling empty … Continue reading Soma Cake – The Longest Hug

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Soma Cake – Hopes and Fears

Tom

Hopes and Fears is taken from Soma Cake’s recently released Girls Bite Harder album. It’s a guitar driven post punk track which, despite it’s melancholy lyrics, has a catchy melodic feel about it. Now I am off to grab the aforementioned album hoping that they can maintain the standard this single has set. Both the single and album can be downloaded digitally from here. Facebook Continue reading Soma Cake – Hopes and Fears