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		<title>Soft As Snow share hypnotic “Bruised Dawn” video, announce fall U.S. tour</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnaud Marty]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 07:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Soft as Snow's album Metal.wet is out now, via Beacon Sound.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Berlin-based Norwegian duo <em><a href="https://highclouds.org/tag/soft-as-snow/">Soft as Snow</a></em> are back with a transfixing new visual and a string of U.S. tour dates. If you are a fan of <em><a href="https://highclouds.org/tag/smerz/">Smerz</a></em>, you&#8217;ll most likely appreciate their shape-shifting sound that slips between avant-pop, trip hop, and experimental electronics. Their music blends dark, industrial tones with hazy sensuality, strange textures, and a haunting ambient detachment. All of that was culminating in <em>Oda Starheim</em> and <em>Øystein Monsen</em>&#8216;s third full-length album <em>Metal.wet</em>, that was <a href="https://highclouds.org/best-albums-eps-mixtapes-2024/">one of our favourite releases of 2024</a>. </p>
<p>Now, the duo have shared a new visual. The video for “Bruised Dawn,” a standout from <em>Metal.wet</em>, is a collaboration with director <em>Zeb Ringer</em>. Eschewing digital effects in favor of raw, analogue tricks, <em>Ringer</em> manipulates mirrors, light, and everyday objects to conjure up an eerie, dreamlike world. The visuals feel both tactile and intangible, like slipping between dimensions with your eyes wide open. “As the eye is drawn in, the mind drifts—weightless—through otherworldly dimensions, hovering between what is seen and what is believed to be seen,” the band notes. Watch the video here.</p>
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<p><em>Soft as Snow</em> will embark on their first-ever U.S. tour this fall. Check their itinerary below:</p>
<p>Sep 18 – Chicago, IL – Burlington Bar<br />
Sep 19 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre<br />
Sep 21 – New York, NY – Isola<br />
Sep 24 – Silver Spring, MD – The Quarry House<br />
Sep 26 – Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn<br />
Sep 27 – Athens, GA – Ciné Athens<br />
Sep 30 – Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves<br />
Oct 1 – Austin, TX – Mohawk<br />
Oct 4 – Tucson, AZ – Pidgin Palace Arts<br />
Oct 5 – Phoenix, AZ – Thunderbird Lounge<br />
Oct 9 – Portland, OR – Virtua Gallery</p>
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		<title>Free Anckaert’s playlist #16: Tami T, Basile3, Orlando&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Free Anckaert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Buscabulla]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Spring is here! This week&#8217;s playlist by curator Free Anckaert is here with a selection of his favorite tracks. Our]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4 align="justify">Spring is here! This week&#8217;s playlist by curator <strong>Free Anckaert</strong> is here with a selection of his favorite tracks.</h4>
<p align="justify">Our curator scours through hundreds of SoundCloud tracks to find the best new gems by artists that are flying under the radar. Our Brussels-based fellow overwhelms you with a variety of songs that make your head go nuts. This week, Free offers us a playlist that smells like a comeback! Here are a few of his favorites:</p>
<p align="justify"><strong><u>Tami T &#8211; Strong Hands</u></strong>:</p>
<p align="justify">&#8220;Strong Hands&#8221; is probably the ‘oldest’ song in all of my Highclouds playlists so far. But I’ve got a good reason to open my 16th Highclouds playlist with <em><u><a href="https://highclouds.org/tag/Tami-T">Tami T</a></u></em>’s best song &#8211; not that I need any reason to add any song in my playlists anyway. Anyhow, when (heroine) <em><u><a href="https://highclouds.org/tag/Fever-Ray">Fever Ray</a></u></em> played the Ancienne Belgique last Thursday, <em>Tami T</em> was the support act. If you’re a keen follower of Highclouds I’m pretty sure you already know her ánd you know she’s amazing (with her strap-on as percussion). &#8220;Strong Hands&#8221; definitely is a (gay) anthem the world needs.</p>
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<p align="justify"><strong><u>Basile3 — Sadly, My Crypto Banks</u></strong>:</p>
<p align="justify">This is the discovery of this playlist. &#8220;Sadly, My Cropto Banks&#8221; is part of <em><u><a href="https://highclouds.org/tag/Basile3">Basile3</a></u></em> &#8211; a 24 year old producer based in Paris &#8211; his latest EP &#8220;Recyclable Pop Exercice&#8221;. It’s a compilation of some songs he made during last year. “I guess &#8211; Recyclable Pop Exercice &#8211; is my utopic, honest and versatile take on current trends and tropes in instrumental pop music” &#8211; quoting <em>Basile3</em>.</p>
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<p align="justify"><strong><u>Orlando &#8211; Friends or Lovers? (feat. Buscabulla)</u></strong>:</p>
<p align="justify">Oh I love it when new artists succeed to completely blow you away with an excellent debut album &#8211; thinking about <em><u><a href="https://highclouds.org/tag/Kelly-Lee-Owens">Kelly Lee Owens</a></u></em> and <em><u><a href="https://highclouds.org/tag/Kedr-Livanskij">Kedr Livanskij</a></u></em> among many others last year. <em><u><a href="https://highclouds.org/tag/Orlando">Orlando</a></u></em> who combines pop, dancehall and contemporary club music in his self-titled debut certainly knows what he’s doing, working together with <em>Mr. Mitch</em>, <em>Octo Octa</em> and <em>Buscabulla</em>. The album is about “focusing on experiences of near-insanity, depression and healing”, inspired by life in New York, his sexuality and ghosts.</p>
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<h2><center>Another week of fresh tracks by breaking artists around the world — brought to you by FREE. Check the full playlist below!</center></h2>
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<p align="justify">Check on Free‘s playlist on HighClouds and follow our curator on <u><a href="https://soundcloud.com/freeanckaert" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Soundcloud</a></u>.</p>
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