The Softies- Winter Pageant

Label: K Records

Reissued 2024, Originally released 1997

On their second album, Winter Pageant, The Softies move forward with focused delight. It's the combination of Jen Sbragia (All Girl Summer Fun Band) and Rose Melberg (Tiger Trap, Gaze, Go Sailor) that molds The Softies' panoply: feathers and thorns, fawn and fearless, fable and friction. Originally released in 1997, Winter Pageant is the drama of utter melancholia documenting the broken promises, missed phone calls, conversations stalled, love lost. Colossal tasks recorded two guitars deep, forming a new Iliad, chapters on brave deeds and the power of love on the move. You can live for love, or you could live for the splendid cascade of guitar on guitar, voice over voice: The Softies. Winter Pageant was recorded by Stuart Hallerman (Soundgarden, KARP) at his Avast! Recording studio in Seattle, Washington.

Track listing:

1. Pack Your Things and Go
2. So Sad
3. Over
4. No One at All
5. Tracks and Tunnels
6. Excellent
7. My Foolish Way
8. Best Days
9. Fortune
10. Splintered Hands
11. About You
12. Anywhere But Here
13. Winter Pageant
14. Make Up Your Mind