Premiere: Soft Pipes, ‘Stay Pretty’

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Anthony Polcino emerged from the shadow of his role as guitarist in Low Vs Diamond last autumn, when, doing business as Soft Pipes, he self-released a very good homemade album “When You’re Done Here You Get to Go Home.” Since then, abetted by Christopher Pappas and Miracle Parade, Polcino has assembled a live band and started to stretch out. Soft Pipes’ forthcoming new EP, “Stay Pretty,” represents the songwriter “going for it a little more,” he says, with a bigger sound, grander atmospherics and more sophisticated instrumentation. The change-of-pace chorus in the title track is killer. No release date for the EP yet, but it’s 22 minutes of music worth waiting for.

||| Stream: “Stay Pretty”