Deeper (The Soft Moon album)

Deeper
Studio album by The Soft Moon
Released	March 31, 2015
Recorded	Venice, Italy Berlin, Germany
Genre	Dark wave [1]
Length	43:04
Label	Captured Tracks
Producer	Luis Vasquez Maurizio Baggio
The Soft Moon chronology
Zeros (2012) Deeper (2015) Criminal (2018)

Deeper is the third full-length studio album by American post-punk band the Soft Moon. It was released on March 31, 2015 by Captured Tracks. ^[2]

First single "Black" was featured as a Best New Track by Pitchfork , ^[3] and was used in the television series Gotham and How to Get Away With Murder . Million Dollar Extreme's Adult Swim television series also used "Try" as the ending song to the episode "Illegal Broadcast: John Hell Emergency". In 2024, "Black" was used in an Apple Watch commercial. ^[4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	74/100 [5]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[6]
NPR	favorable [7]
Pitchfork	7.8/10 [8]
The Quietus	favorable [9]
Exclaim!	8/10 [1]

Lisa Sookraj of Exclaim! called the record a more polished release that is "fuller, fatter and puts more emphasis on its futuristic electronic elements than its nostalgic ones." ^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Inward"	0:40
2.	"Black"	3:28
3.	"Far"	3:56
4.	"Wasting"	5:50
5.	"Wrong"	3:18
6.	"Try"	3:53
7.	"Desertion"	3:55
8.	"Without"	3:23
9.	"Feel"	3:48
10.	"Deeper"	4:39
11.	"Being"	6:16

Personnel

Adapted from CD liner notes and AllMusic. ^{[6] [10]}

• Maurizio Baggio – production, mixing, mastering (at Hate Studio, Vicenza, Italy), co-writer for "Wrong"
• Luis Vasquez – composition, performance, production, audio engineer

References

1. Sookraj, Lisa (March 27, 2015). "Soft Moon – Deeper". Exclaim! . Retrieved April 20, 2015.
2. "The Soft Moon goes Deeper on new album; listen to the industrial march 'Black'". FACT Magazine. December 2, 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
3. "The Soft Moon: "Black"". Pitchfork. December 3, 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
4. "All the music from Apple's 'It's Glowtime' iPhone event". Appleosophy. September 9, 2024. Retrieved October 25, 2024.
5. "Deeper by The Soft Moon Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic . Retrieved February 22, 2019.
6. "Deeper – The Soft Moon Release Information, Reviews, and Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved April 10, 2015.
7. Jason Heller (March 22, 2015). "Review: The Soft Moon, 'Deeper'". NPR . Retrieved April 10, 2015.
8. T. Cole Rachel (April 3, 2015). "The Soft Moon: Deeper". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 10, 2015.
9. Ben Graham (March 19, 2015). "Reviews The Soft Moon Deeper". The Quietus . Retrieved April 10, 2015.
10. Deeper (CD liner). The Soft Moon. Captured Tracks. 2015.