Soft Hair: "You never know what kind of thing might be the next pop music"

These two minds have been collaborating and melding since first meeting in 2009, when Connan supported Sam’s previous band Late of The Pier on tour and the result is an exotic mixture of bastardised pop. “Hardly anybody has heard it so it feels a lot like releasing something we've only just made,” says Sam. ‘Soft Hair’ is a project that utilises what both he and Connan do best: compose music that is neither new nor old. It’s a fresh representation of whatever comes into their heads, and ultimately, how it comes out, nobody really knows. “You never know what kind of thing might be the next pop music, but you would hope it's not going to be the same as the previous or current pop music, and if you carry on with that train of thought it can lead you anywhere musically.”

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The relationship between the two is one that started with tension in 2007, after a fight between the pair’s respective bands at a music industry event, and it took two years to begin this formation. While the release of ‘Soft Hair’ has been a long time coming, there’s no real sense that this is a permanent fixture of each other’s life, as Connan admits: “We hadn’t changed anything or talked in many years except group emails with out record label when discussing the release.” Sam continues: “We've left it as it was, since it was finished a few years ago. We might have changed only a little, but not the record”.

This doesn’t mean it was a forced partnership, quite the opposite in fact. “With Soft Hair I could record or write a more loose idea of something,” says Sam, “and know that if it wasn't good enough, Connan could play or write something better. If it was good then it'd have a more natural feel to it because of there not being any pressure.