Soft Spot glam rock and Valentine Nixon (Purple Pilgrims)

and Valentine Nixon (Purple Pilgrims) expressing emptiness by stripping away words

it was time to step out from behind the bands and put something out there under his own name

Honing in on the songs before we went deep into the arrangements and freaky sounds

2021 via New Zealand label Flying Nun Records

It’s a testament to her empathy and creativity that these songs feel both specific and universal

Soft Spot glam rock and Valentine Nixon (Purple Pilgrims)This area of the throat, says Chelsea Jade, resting three fingers roughly where her neck meets her chest. Its particularly soft, and it's connected it's halfway between the heart and the mouth. And that's an interesting place of vulnerability. Soft Spot, the Los Angeles based New Zealand artists second album, dwells somewhere between feeling and expression, certainty and doubt. It ventures beyond the exploration of delusions of grandeur that formed