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The Electric Soft Parade return with first album for six years
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 4 December 2019
Thomas and Alex White have announced that they will release their first album as The Electric Soft Parade for six years in January, titled ‘Stages’.
“Several years after our mother passed away, I sat down one day and wrote the rough shape of an album”, says Alex. “I took on the multiple perspectives of the experience of death and grief – trying to imagine my mother’s feelings and how she experienced both her life and her death, as well as how others in the family may have felt and reacted, as well as my own sense of overcoming this grief”.
He continues: “My writing having been less than forthcoming in recent years – I have now hit a peak, I hope. I am extremely proud of these pieces of work, both in their honesty and their construction. It is a strange feeling to be a fan of one’s work and genuinely satisfied and engaged with it: often in the past, I have felt I have ‘got away’ with things, or not been able to fully realise my ideas. Not so here”.
“Hopefully, this personal vision and interrogation of grief may provide others with a roadmap of sorts to navigate these deep, dark, universal feelings – not in a depressive, maudlin manner, but rather with an honest, reflective, and ameliorating tone”, he concludes.
The fifth album overall for the outfit, ‘Stages’ will arrive on 8 Jan. Listen to the first track from it, ‘Roles Reversed’, here:
