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THE SOFT EYES debut album LET'S DANCE TO OUR OWN BEATS is what happens when
three swedish citizens, one girl and two boys, born in the 70's in three different northern cities,
grown up in quite boring surroundings listening to cassette tapes of good and bad music,
playing music to fill our lives with something really meaningful and then meeting up in Stockholm
realizing that we're all shortsighted, have the same thyroid disease, vote for the same party
and happen to have the same idea of what kind of band to play in and then starting that band and finally
make an album with it.

LET'S DANCE TO OUR OWN BEATS is eleven songs, spontaneously recorded on
an eight track tape recorder at different apartments in Stockholm.
Our tape recorder broke down several times during the recordings. But we never gave up the hope for it,
not even when it broke down during the few days went spent in a studio mixing the album.
The tape recoder is a Fostex R8 from the 80's. It's made out of black plastic and has white text and
red numbers on the digital display. Guess it was quite expensive back then but really cheap now on e-bay.

Enough about the R8 and back to more facts about the band.

The Soft Eyes are Linda Hörnqvist, Johan Sigerud and Daniel Värjö.
Some might say the band is a side project because Johan also plays with my
Orchard, Linda with Marit Bergman, Daniel with The Concretes and Marit
Bergman, but "side project" sounds so dull. We would like to say that it's just our band.
The kind of band we wanted to form when we met a couple of years ago is an easy going band,
that plays with instruments you can carry, doesn't spend day after day rehearsing and that records the songs
as soon as possible after they are written on whatever there's at hand.
We want to capture the instant feelings of the songs.
The limitations in time and equipment is a strength, at least that's what we think.

/ DANIEL VÄRJÖ, STOCKHOLM 27 september 2005

DOWNLOAD PRESS PICTURE HERE

Johan Sigerud: vocals, guitar, bass, percussions
Daniel Värjö: guitars, bass, organ, banjo, mandolin, percussions, backing up vocals
Linda Hörnqvist: drums, percussions, bass, organ, synths, melodica, backing up vocals

thesofteyes@instantfeelings.com

RELEASED STUFF:

- Never The Last Time (Video by Camilla Söderberg)
- Never The Last Time (Promo single, Instant Feelings Recordings/Massproduktion/Bonnier Amigo)
- Wc (Video by Camilla Söderberg)
- Living Through Memories (7" vinyl, Instant Feelings Recordings)
- All their broken hearts (Tribute to J. Doiron, cd album, Paperheart Music)
- But Almost... (Tribute to Elevator, cd album, The Spiral)
- Osaka Vs. Tokyo (Compilation, cd, osaka vs. tokyo)
- Hi-fi music for lo-fi hearts (Compilation, cd album, Paperheart Music)
- There's mothing wrong with happiness (Cd-r)
- I saw you, make me echo (Cd-r)
- Crackers + Coffee (Cd-r)