Softer
by Contour
For Fans Of: IAMNOBODI, Salmi Rose Joe Louis, Venna, Moon Soul, Cruza, Madison McFerrin, Hiatus Kaiyote
1. Spring / Fall
2. I'll Be
3. Underwater Love
4. Blinders
5. Banished
6. The Fool
7. February Autumn
Mixing/Mastering - Harris Cole
Art Direction - Austin Butler, Maxton Stenstrom, and Ashley Waldron
Additional Production from Omari Jazz on "Banished"
Booklet Design - Khari Lucas
Packaging Design - Ryan Magnole
Film Credits:
Actors - Amara Britt, Austin Butler
Introduction - Sami Seal
Director - Khari Lucas, John Peters
Cinematographer - Carson Tucker
In a wash of harrowing synths and deadpanned snares, Contour's 'Softer' sets out to pierce through the subterfuge of language and appearance. Sami Seal begins this succinct fifteen-minute sojourn explicating the fatal cost required in any true form of love. What follows is a longing for genuine human contact, which breaches through the superficial record-skip of rote, "I love you's" and other shallow attempts to placate a yearning soul.
In a wash of harrowing synths and deadpanned snares, Contour's 'Softer' sets out to pierce through the subterfuge of language and appearance. Sami Seal begins this succinct fifteen-minute sojourn explicating the fatal cost required in any true form of love. What follows is a longing for genuine human contact, which breaches through the superficial record-skip of rote, "I love you's" and other shallow attempts to placate a yearning soul.
'Softer' offers a pure translation of Contour's emotional angst, as well as his earnestness in discovering some solution, if any should exist, for one of life's most bewildering paradoxes.
South Carolina's Contour released 'Softer' as an EP and as a short film. The audio and visual duality grow closer together with the release of his project as a CD/DVD package with a lyrics and graphic booklet.