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New Music Critique: The Soft Parts

Contact: softparts9999@gmail.com

Web: Spotify

Seeking: Review, Distribution, Exposure

Style: Sophisti-pop/avant-lounge/jazztronica

The brain behind “faux-jazz/funk avant-lounge sophisti-pop” (their words) project The Soft Parts is composer and creative producer Robert Dilemma, and boy, what a brain he has. While these instrumental pieces all clock in at close to-or-over 10 minutes, the classical electro-funk opuses never outstay their welcome.

There are are elements of electronic pioneers Tangerine Dream, Kraftwork, and Jean-Michel Jarre at play, as Dilemma takes us on a journey through tracks like “Riviera,” “Abyssinian,” and “Innuendo.” Any one of them could be a film or TV score, as Dilemma takes us through a full range of emotions without uttering a single word.