The compact disc version of No. is now out of stock! It’s likely a further run may be pressed in the autumn but in the meantime you can still acquire the vinyl LP version — which is also getting low in stock — or buy the digital from BandCamp. There’s of course streaming options but these aforementioned options are little less in the “corporate streaming” sphere and with the funds going directly to fund Soft Riot operations in the future.
No. is the latest Soft Riot album released in summer 2023.
No. is the logical follow-up to When Push Comes To Shove, released in November 2019 on the Glasgow UK-based label Possession Records, which saw some critical acclaim in the increasingly diverse synthwave scene — a crystallization of the artist’s signature sound.
With No. things have been shaken up and pushed into new directions. Many different factors came into play, including the conditions of the pandemic lockdowns and an urge for listening to music favourites from beyond his own scene informed developments on this new record. One key feature of these tracks is that under these conditions they were developed as individual pieces — a constrasting approach from previous albums where tracks were written with an album in mind. An evaluation of all of these individual tracks in the summer of 2022 unveiled a common pattern going through these new compositions.