At the end of another year, with a new year to come
31 December 2025
Well, that’s another year done and I figured with that I’d cap off 2025 with this entry to wrap things up as well go into the new year of 2026.
Writer’s Block with a cover of “Cinema Eyes” by Iv/An
1 May 2025
The new album by Croatian minimal synth artist Iv/an out now called Writer’s Block, which includes a cover by the artist of the Soft Riot track “Cinema Eyes”.
Tral Neu mini-album on Tonal Shifts out now
10 October 2021
After over a year in the making, the release date has come for the mini-album on the Tonal Shifts label of Tral Neu, a collaborative, multi-country musical project featuring tracks by groups of musicians in the underground synth/wave scene. On this release is the track “Making The Same Mistake”, a group effort by Soft Riot, Madmoizel and Iv/An.
Interview: Soft Riot’s Jack Duckworth Keeps His Chin Up
30 April 2020
“Jack Duckworth is a synth-driven journeyman who has delivered leftfield sounds across multiple projects over the past 25 years. For the past decade, he’s developed a sizeable, sinewave-forward solo catalogue as Soft Riot.”
Announcing the newest album, Chin Up
6 April 2020
Available on digital and limited CD and cassete, the majority of the tracks from this album were written at the same time as the tracks from the most recent release, When Push Comes To Shove. Chin Up was mostly written in the late night hours as an escape from the trappings of things like culture, scenes, political calamity, information overload, existential dread and the confines of what is considered synthesizer pop music.
Interpolation by This Is The Bridge out now
15 September 2019
Brick is red! Today, September 15 sees the release of This Is The Bridge‘s 4th physical releaseon Ivan Antunovic’s 0.5 label, in the shape of an album that is a collaborative effort with numerous friends and artists, including a some saxophone contributions by yours truly of Soft Riot.
0.5 is X – Anniversary Special
1 July 2019
0.5, a label run by Ivan Antunonic (Iv/An), has recently created a great mix from a selection of artists who had appeared in 0.5’s catalogue in the first decade of its micro-operation.