Soft Spot — This Will Make You Cry
Released from Louisville, Kentucky
Post-Hardcore / Rock
From the underground heart of Louisville, Kentucky, Soft Spot deliver This Will Make You Cry — a record that wears its heart like an open wound. It’s raw, unflinching, and unapologetically human, blending the visceral energy of post-hardcore with a rock sensibility that’s equal parts melodic and confrontational.
The album feels like a diary you shouldn’t be reading but can’t put down — page after page of emotional reckoning. Riffs don’t just hit; they cut, burn, and leave their mark. Drums crash like collapsing walls, basslines rumble with a physical weight, and the vocals — urgent, vulnerable, and defiant — carry the unshakable feeling that these songs had to be sung.
There’s a sense of place in the record too — Louisville’s storied DIY scene runs through its veins. It’s an album forged in sweat-soaked practice spaces, late-night shows in cramped basements, and that intoxicating mix of frustration and hope that fuels the city’s underground. The sound is unpolished in the best way: alive, breathing, and real.
Lyrically, This Will Make You Cry is a confrontation with the self — grief, loss, desire, and the strange beauty of falling apart. Every track feels like a conversation you’ve had in the small hours of the night, when you’re too tired to lie to yourself anymore. It’s not just catharsis — it’s survival, set to guitar strings and drum skins.
For fans of music that doesn’t just play in the background but grabs you by the collar, This Will Make You Cry is both a challenge and an invitation. It asks you to feel everything, even when it hurts — especially when it hurts.
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