Soft Will by Smith Westerns

Soft Will came out on June 25, 2013, the first Smith Westerns record for Mom + Pop Music and, as it turned out, the Chicago band's third and last. Brothers Cullen and Cameron Omori and guitarist Max Kakacek had come a long way from recording in Kakacek's basement, and with Chris Coady producing, the glammy sparkle of Dye It Blonde softens into something dreamier and more reflective, guitars shimmering where they used to strut. The band's old love of Bowie, T. Rex and Oasis is still in there, just blurred at the edges.

"Varsity" went out as the first single in March, the day after the band signed to the label, and reviews were mostly warm. By December 2014 they had announced an indefinite hiatus, later confirmed as a breakup.

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