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Throw The Dice

Switzerland-based Indie collective Soft Loft ‘Throw The Dice’ is, in many ways, a reflection on life itself. It’s about what the band learned, what they’ve observed, what has helped and what hasn’t. It questions whether they’re stepping into a new phase in life, or if that idea of clear-cut phases doesn’t really exist at all. It’s about it all being a big game, a huge gamble and you won‘t know if it‘s all gonna turn out fine or if it’s not, let‘s throw a dice. ​

Recorded and produced by the band in France and mixed by Grammy-winning engineer Craig Silvey (Arcade Fire, Florence + The Machine, The National), ‘Throw The Dice’ paves the way for a 2026 that's going to be Soft Loft's year.

TRACK LISTING

1. Where is Mr Racoon
2. Gravity’s Pull
3. Wednesdays
4. F U WANT IT
5. Wrists That Won’t Be Mine
6. Caught
7. What Are The Odds
8. Lonely Sometimes Comes In Joy
9. Told

The Loft

Badges

After releasing their first studio album last year, more than 40 years after disbanding, The Loft return in 2026 with their second record. 'Badges', featuring ten tracks, captures what defined The Loft then and what continues to define them today. As pioneers of an entire genre, they have nothing to prove – neither to themselves nor to anyone else – and that ease and quiet confidence resonate through every song on the album. The record features 10 new songs, recorded at producer Sean Read’s (Dexys, Edwyn Collins, Iggy) Famous Times studio in Hackney and is released on the Tapete Records label.

The original four members, Pete Astor, Dave Morgan, Bill Prince and Andy Strickland have produced an album that continues, and moves forward, the story of The Loft, the band that helped define the sound of the Creation label and the emerging Indie genre. 'Badges' has a sound that comes from a band who’ve been together, touring and playing consistently over the past two years – relaxed, vibey, assured.

‘It feels good to be in a real band again, and for the first time I’m co- writing songs with Andy, earning to manage and negotiate all the things that split the band apart all those years ago,’ says singer and songwriter Pete Astor. ‘We just naturally started writing the new album as soon as we finished touring last year,’ says guitarist Andy Strickland, ‘it feels more organic - it’s a real privilege to still be able to get together and do this.’

TRACK LISTING

1. Happenstance
2. Sad Comedian
3. Campervan
4. 1955
5. Beautiful Problem
6. Ex-Lovers And Long Lost Brothers
7.  Goodbye Saturday Night
8. C'Mon Let's Hear It For The Now
9. Junk Shop
10. Rob Rides The Sunset

The Loft

Everything Changes, Everything Stays The Same

The Return Of The Loft!

The Loft notched up an impressive list of firsts for Creation Records' artists back in the mid-80s. First Creation band on TV, first to hit the top of the indie singles chart, first to be invited on to a major UK tour and first Creation band to record a coveted BBC radio session - for Janice Long's Radio One show in 1984. Then they split up.

Since that infamous onstage tragedy; splitting up mid-song, at the Hammersmith Palais in front of 3,000 people when on the verge of Big Time indie greatness, the band has reunited. Just as their status as one of the UK's most influential guitar bands of the 80s continues to grow and to influence a host of younger artists, and thirty nine years after that acrimonious split, it seemed the time was right to record their debut album.

Last year, after a sell-out show at London's MOTH club and their heralded appearance at the Glas-Goes Pop festival, the group was invited by BBC 6 Music's 'Riley & Coe' to record its fourth BBC session, at Maida Vale's famous Studio 4. Within 6 months the session was rush released by Precious Recordings of London on glorious ten inch vinyl. Enter Hamburg based, Tapete Records, who, hearing rumours about new Loft material, snapped up the album and signed the band without hearing a single note.

The album was recorded in Hackney in August and produced by Dexys' Sean Read with the original Loft line up of Pete Astor (guitar /vocals) Andy Strickland (guitar), Bill Prince (bass) and Dave Morgan (drums).


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