Don’t be fooled by the name. The Soft Pack isn’t your parents answer to Bread. They don’t make music to gently sip white wine and read chicken soup for the soul too. They are a band that will show up to a room of however many people, force them into the submission of three chord rock n roll, and leave. After 45 minutes of a combination of surf, punk, and garage rock, the audience only has two questions. “Have I heard this before?” and “How did I get so sweaty?”
Yes, you have heard this before, but you haven’t heard it with such originality. The Soft Pack takes all of what was good in the psychedelic nuggets era of the 60s (they were originally called the Muslims) and pushes it forward with more recklessness, melody, and controlled sloppiness. You’ll hear a little stooges and mc5 caressing the watery tones of Dick Dale. All the influences are there, and the Soft Pack uses them without ripping them off.
And to answer the second question. You might be sweaty because you’re in San Diego (in which they’re from) or it could be due to the excessive amount of booze-enhanced dancing you just performed. Chances are you’ll get shit-faced at this show, which is the point. This is the music made to drink and dance like a rock n roll savage.
Oh man, I thought you were referring to the soft pack cigarettes that I have come to love and cherish
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