Chris Staples American Soft 10/1/12 youthful chaos with skits and

youthful chaos with skits and ideas that are woven together with little attention to logic

These new songs feel a little brighter than their previous offerings

Hip Hop 2 LP set on metallic glacier color vinyl

This positively slaps

With each track delving into Yanos personal history

Chris Staples American Soft 10/1/12 youthful chaos with skits andStaples wrote portions of American Soft while squatting in his abandoned childhood home, a Pensacola, FL bungalow empty save for an old piano. I slept on a Coleman cot for two months. The yard was overgrown up to my waist, Staples remembers. The neighbor lady across the street used to babysit me. I ran into her one day and she didnt even recognize me. I hadnt seen her in 15 years.American Softs musical ideas are at once diverse and cohesive, the