Matmos’ Drew Daniel Announces New Soft Pink Truth Album, Shares New Song: Listen

pitchfork.com:

Matmos’ Drew Daniel has announced his latest album under his pseudonym the Soft Pink Truth. The follow-up to 2016’s Why Pay More?

is called Shall We Go On Sinning…, and it’s out May 1 via Thrill Jockey. Listen to the album’s first single “We” below. “The election of Donald Trump made me feel very angry and sad, but I didn’t want to make ‘angry white guy’ music in a purely reactive mode,” Daniel said. “I felt that I needed to make music through a different process, and to a different emotional outcome, to get past a private feeling of powerlessness by making musical connections with friends and people I admire, to make something that felt socially extended and affirming.” Last year, Matmos released their new album Plastic Anniversary, which