"Escape Forever" LP (Test Pressing)

NOTE: this item is a preorder but will ship before the release date of April 11th. We appreciate your patience and ongoing support.

Happy to announce the official follow up to 2023's "Metta World Peace".

Mostly written in Chicago over the course of last year, “Escape Forever” is a signal from the past, a loose thread that pulls us from our nostalgia filled bedrooms into our present moment. Both a loving homage to teenage memories and an intense response to our current milieu. Soft Kill’s Escape Forever is thirteen raw tunes, musings and samples with Chicago artist RBTayskii as the spiritual tour guide. The record is delightfully centered around just the painful and joyful moment of creation, where guitars and melodies are supreme. Soft Kill attempts to grapple with the chaos of the world coming back to harmony, to reconcile with the past, to embrace it. On how to remain humble and intentional in an ever more complicated world. As Emerson once said we are artists because we are unsuccessful people living in an unsuccessfully realized world. “Escape Forever” tries to find transcendence in the knuckle bruising nightmare we came from instead of the realm of the phenomenal, praised and often overreaching. It harkens back to another era, but “Escape Forever” is decidedly the sound of us now.

1. Cousin
2. I Wish You'd Go
3. Love, Sosa
4. Joy is a Crime
5. Over East Radio
6. Come Hang From The Roof Tops
7. My Section
8. Kia Boys Don't Cry
9. Please Hold
10. Fools
11. Englewood
12. Ready To Die
13. Escape Forever

All songs by Tobias Grave & Nicole Colbath.
Drums by Zachary Miller.
Mixed by Philip Odom and mastered by Will Yip.

The deluxe packaging includes a 24pt wide-spine sleeve, obi sticker, 16 booklet and 33" x 22.75" fold out newsprint poster, hand-assembled by us in Chicago, IL.

Test pressing on clear vinyl with white splatter housed in exclusive pegasus sleeve. Hand-numbered out of 28 copies.

Vinyl manufactured at the legendary Cascade Record Pressing.

1st Pressing:

8 - Black Test Pressings + "Massacre Divine" Cover (Friends & Family)
28 - Clear w/ White Splatter Test Pressings + Pegasus Cover
20 - Clear w/ White & Green Splatter + Clear Obi
40 - Clear w/ White, Green & Black Splatter + Black Obi
100 - Clear w/ White, Green, Black & Pink Splatter + Green Obi & Postcards
100 - Gold w/ Black Splatter + Limited Cover
100 - Yellow w/ Red Splatter + View Finder
150 - Natural w/ Black Splatter
200 - Cloudy Light Blue w/ Dark Blue Splatter (Evil Greed)
200 - Green (Rough Trade)
300 - Bubblegum Pink

This is CSR050.