Your browser does not support HTML5 audio. Large toggle button 00:00 / 00:00 Previous track button Next track button Small toggle button A1. Saying Hi To You Small toggle button A2. Fais Moi La Guerre (feat. Nastychong) Small toggle button A3. Something To Say Small toggle button B1. For A Moment Small toggle button B2. Just Run Small toggle button C1. Jealous Type Small toggle button C2. Guestlist Small toggle button C3. And Shout Small toggle button D1. So Nice Small toggle button D2. Bye Then åÊ For its second release, Climate of Fear proudly presents ‰ÛÏSo Nice,‰ the debut LP from Soft Boi aka Pessimist aka Kristian Jabs. Following 2019‰۪s sludge-crawl collab with Karim Maas and the eco-hellscape new age of Boreal Massif‰۪s ‰ÛÏWe All Have An Impact,‰ Jabs turns his attention to a new nightmare: dating. ‰ÛÏSo Nice‰ dials back the suffocating d‰۪n‰۪b bass weight. Jabs has perfected, opting instead for a shimmering palette of magenta hued synth leads and chunky Rhythm Nation snare cracks. Across this languid backdrop, Jabs narrates the inner monologue of his Soft Boi counterpart. By turns cheeky, seething and emotive, his terse lyrics dissect modern masculinity with unflinching control. Hours blearily wasted on dating apps, spiraling arguments and circular obsessions, the clammy loneliness of self-obsession and the rigid fury of objectification all spread out across the album like an oil spill. From the opening credits roll of ‰ÛÏSaying Hi To You,‰ through the slo-mo rave sheen of ‰ÛÏFais Moi La Guerre‰ (feat Nastychong), the junglist malaise of ‰ÛÏAnd Shout‰ and the boiled trip hop of ‰ÛÏGuestlist,‰ ‰ÛÏSo Nice‰ is an album of surprising violence, tightly coiled and covered an artificially-sweetened pop glaze. As Soft Boi, Jabs reclaims the conceptual from its oft-clinical corner, giving us a concept / breakup album rooted in the club marketplace, executed with punk‰۪s jugular concision and driven by a deep antipathy for modern life & love. Cat: FEAR002