From the moment tonight’s headliners Young and Restless took to the stage, it was obvious that this was a curiously mismatched bill. Of course, by then drummer Nugie Utomo had already filled in behind the kit for an undermanned Soft Tigers, and he was to play a substantial part in proceedings. His n...
The curious sounds of Soft Tigers “We were going to see quite a lot of shows, and we were pretty frustrated with it,” says Bucky Toller (a.k.a. Bucktronic), one third of Soft Tigers. “We didn’t see much stuff we liked. We had a lot of friends who really loved lots of different music, and they weren’t being represented. It was pretty one-dimensional. We just wanted to do something that reflected what we like.” He sa...
In many ways, Soft Tigers arrive to fill the spot recently vacated on the local pop landscape by Architecture In Helsinki. There is a gaucheness to them – check ‘Makin’ Love’, which wobbles along a very fine line between sweet and embarrassing – offset by a sly, tongue-in-cheek cleverness. It’s a co...
Gospel Ambitions begins with maniacal laughter, half Muppets, half bedroom gear-geeks. They’re testing out keyboard tones and whooping it up. Soft Tigers; the name does suggest a certain goofy eccentricity, well padded, corners rounded off, in keeping with the band’s stated mission to stand out amon...
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