SOFT LOFT - Throw The Dice

With two EPs and a second album that seals their long-awaited record deal with Pias, the Swiss band Soft Loft try to cross the line between promise and the reality of indie-pop. The folk-pop leanings and dream-pop sounds of their early work remain intact and still delightfully evocative, but with "Throw The Dice" Jorina Stamm's band doesn't seem keen to step outside a comfort zone echoing the influence of Big Thief, as on the spry ballad "Wrists That Won't Be Mine", pop approaches that never go beyond ritual box-ticking on the weak "Caught", and more ambitious tracks that nod to Fleetwood Mac ("F U WANT IT") and Phoebe Bridgers ("Lonely Sometimes Comes In Joy").

The brief running time, under 27 minutes, doesn't help in gauging the band's potential; the elegant chamber-pop that opens the album, "Where Is Mr. Raccoon", promises intriguing digressions on the notion of dream-pop, which only the unyielding rhythmic drive of "Gravity's Pull" develops with equal harmonic intensity, but nothing afterward lives up to that promise.

"Throw The Dice" isn't a bad album, far from it: the songs have likeable choruses ("Wednesdays"), are musically essential and never overdone ("What Are The Odds"), and, in their own way, elegant ("Told"). The prevailing feeling, though, is of a pleasant record that goes down quickly, one that refreshes the spirit but is unlikely to leave a mark on an increasingly crowded contemporary scene. Even so, the story of Soft Loft is only just beginning.

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05/10/2026