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The Soft Ache and the Moon

by Richard Edwards

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about

A few months after finishing promotional activities for "Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset", Richard Edwards bought an old house and proceeded to not leave it while he wrote an album about a series of dreams he'd been having while bringing this old house back to life. Over two years, a series of short stories set to music began to emerge. These stories, more or less, are about what happens after the end of something. All the ports your little boat finds itself docked to when you're in uncharted waters. How the stars looks when you're lost on an ocean. "The Soft Ache And The Moon" is dance party about the end of the world and what comes next. For best results, listen loud.

Read a neat piece about the album:

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Richard Edwards Track By Track Commentary:

January
I bought a broken down house with the money I was able to save from the few shows I was able to do for LCCSS. I spent the next two years slowly turning it into a home for my daughter and me. It was a beautiful time and the first time in my life that I made something other than music, or an occasional screenplay, my art. I felt a lot of growth as a person. I wrote this while dancing alone in the house one night after going a little nutty painting it for the third time. It all flowed out like water from a faucet. I beat boxed the rhythm for Pete and then we were off to the races.

Monkey
For a long time I’d wanted to have a club anthem. Something you could dance to about being on the prowl, but the kinda prowl that happens when you’re running from something else. It wasn’t as suitable for the club until Mr. Pete Thomas got his hands on it. There exists a very mournful version that we may release one day.

The Things We Will Do To Each Other Someday
This is a short story I was writing for a long time about the past, projection into the future, time machines to set right past events, the inescapably of this past on future generations. There’s not much to say that isn’t in the lyrics. I wouldn’t want to spoil it by explaining too much. But I will say I’d felt stuck in my writing and Mike Bloom showed me open D tuning and this is the first song I wrote in that tuning.

Pink Lightning
The first song I wrote for the record. Written during a month long lost weekend in Los Angeles when I felt very sad and very lost and was trying to determine whether my future course of action would tend toward the sacred or the profane. I’m pleased to say I’ve ended up taking the middle road.

Better World A’ Comin’
I wrote this song over a long period of time. I was reading a lot of revolutionary material and some biographies of weather underground members and feeling a mix of anger and helplessness about the world and my country in particular. And then god sorta makes an appearance and some apocalyptic sexual metaphors occur, so basically a Richard Edwards song.

Cruel And Uncomplicated
A song I just let be as messy and wild and structurally experimental as it wanted to be. That was Mike Bloom loving it too much in its wildness to let it be reined in or tamed. Pete’s drums are just so incredible and complicated beyond measure, yet still approachable and lovely. Just like sweet Pete himself. This one is more or less about the anger and emptiness that accompanies the loss of something when you can’t quite piece together how it happened.

Inchyra Blue
Written while dancing alone in my house. When I don’t have any words really for this one. It’s the exact song I’m always trying to write and I’m glad I finally got one right. The melody is my entire self and the full expression of my inner emotional life.

Happy Christmas (The Whole World Has Changed)
Maybe my favorite song on the album and the most difficult to write in certain ways. It was a little too raw and painful for me, but Dave Palmer, the brilliant piano player got me to do it. And I’m glad he did, even if it hurts a little.

Velvet Ocean, Super Moon
This one I wrote for my little girl. About the last three years and what I hope will happen next. I’m an adult person because of what she brought into my life. I hope this song is worthy of all the stuff she’s done for me. She hasn’t gotten through it yet because it makes her cry, so… basically a Richard Edwards song.

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released June 12, 2020

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Richard Edwards Los Angeles, California

Richard Edwards (Margot & the Nuclear So and So's) has been making music in public since 2003.

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