The Soft Pink Truth is an experimental

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side-project from Drew Daniel, one-half of experimental

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duo

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. Daniel started the project on a dare from

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that he could not produce a house record. ''Do You Party?'', the first album from the Soft Pink Truth, was released in 2003, and featured, among other original songs, a cover of

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's "Make Up". In 2004, Daniel followed up with the Soft Pink Truth's second album, entitled ''Do You Want New Wave (Or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth?)'' (irreverently abbreviated to ''DYWNWODYWTSPT''), a reference to a song by

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. The album consisted entirely of house covers of classic hardcore and

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songs including "Do They Owe Us a Living?" by

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, 'Homosexual' by the Angry Samoans and "Real Shocks" by the

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. The Soft Pink Truth also has recorded a number of remixes, including one for

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's single " It's in Our Hands". Matmos had also collaborated with Björk on her 2001 album ''

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''. In October 2007, Daniel announced on his site that he was creating new music under the guise of the Soft Pink Tube. The album, ''Why Pay More?'', was released in 2015, but under the regular Soft Pink Truth alias. In 2014, the Soft Pink Truth released an album of

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covers entitled ''Why Do the Heathen Rage?'', with the subtitle "Electronic Profanations of Black Metal Classics". The album featured guest appearances from Anohni (listed on the album as Antony Hegarty), Terence Hannum of Locrian,

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, M.C. Schmidt (Daniel's partner in

), and Owen Gardner of Horse Lords. A video for the cover of

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's song "

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" was released on Vimeo. In 2020, the musical act released two albums: '' Shall We Go on Sinning So That Grace May Increase?'', made up of original compositions on

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and ''Am I Free to Go?'', a collection of

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covers that raised money for the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund.

Discography

Albums

* '' Do You Party?'' (2003), Soundslike * '' Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth?'' (2004), Tigerbeat6 * '' Why Do the Heathen Rage?'' (2014), Thrill Jockey * '' Why Pay More?'' (2015), self-published * '' Shall We Go on Sinning So That Grace May Increase?'' (2020), Thrill Jockey * ''Am I Free to Go?'' (2020), self-published * ''Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This?'' (2022), Thrill Jockey

Singles

* "Do It Quite Sloppily" 12" (2001) * "Soft Pink Missy" 12" (2001) * "PromoFunk" 12" (2002) * "Acting Crazy" 12" (2003) * "Do You Party?" 2x12" (2003) * ''Was It Ever Real?'' EP (2022)

References

External links

*
Official Matmos website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Soft Pink Truth American house music groups Musical groups established in 2003 American electronic music groups