The Soft Moon is the musical project of American musician Luis Vasquez. The project emerged around 2009; the self-titled debut was released in 2010 on Captured Tracks. The project is known for dark wave and post-punk-influenced, claustrophobic and noisy sounds. Criminal (2018) marks a collaboration with Sacred Bones.

Luis Vasquez is an American singer and multi-instrumentalist operating as The Soft Moon. Reviews and press note the project's dark-wave/post-punk and industrial influences, recording activity since 2009, a 2010 debut on Captured Tracks, and that Criminal was recorded with Maurizio Baggio in Bassano del Grappa and released via Sacred Bones with themes of childhood trauma and addiction discussed in press coverage.

Reviews portray The Soft Moon as a dark-wave/post-punk solo project of Luis Vasquez, known for claustrophobic, obsessive and industrial-tinged sounds. Early coverage praises the 2010 self-titled album as a landmark; later work (Criminal) is read as a raw, confessional record about trauma and addiction. Critical responses range from ecstatic to mixed.

For:Fans of dark wave, post-punk and industrial music; listeners who prefer intense, confessional and atmospheric records.

 Post-punk is back, it’s resurrected in all its splendor, and God bless Luis Vasquez, but what am I saying, God doesn’t need to bless him, he is God, from California, and his journey into the Mojave Desert, think about it for a moment: a delirious genius, a guy who went to record practically in Death Valley (it’s not true, but it makes for great drama) and if he didn’t think of some kind of devil, it was the music that drove him crazy.

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 Criminal is, however, contrary to what one might think and what was a certain expression in the past of the dark wave movement during the eighties; instead of being a kind of celebration of this status quo, it’s indeed a true scream.

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 If Ghostbusters were a B-series horror movie, set in the future with the Twilight cast as ghost hunters, it would undoubtedly have this album as a soundtrack.

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