The Soft Eyes

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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. 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 User-co

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