THIS HOUSE ‘Soft Rains Will Come’ LP

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Released 20 March, edition of 300.

This House is an international experimental rock group and the second collaboration between G.W. Sok (The Ex) and Ignacio Córdoba. Emerging from their 2024 album Is This A House, the project expands their partnership into a full-band format featuring Søren Høi and Kristian Tangvik, merging poetry with rock, electronics, and experimental soundscapes built on hypnotic rhythms, angular guitars, and vivid, extreme textures. This House blend the dreamlike quality of Sok’s storytelling with the hypnotic pulse of Córdoba’s electronic world, adding the punch, intensity, and focus of the guitar bands they both grew up playing in. Merging dense electronics, sprechgesang vocals, polyrhythmic drumming, and distorted bass synths, the band creates songs that move like living organisms – equal parts structure and collapse – bridging the raw, angular directness of postpunk with the unpredictability of free improvisation, and making music that is as political as it is physical. Each member brings a strong individual background: G.W. Sok, co-founder and voice of the legendary Dutch band The Ex, remains one of the mostdistinctive figures in European underground music; Spanish-born Ignacio Córdoba is a Copenhagen-based producer and experimentalist known for his cross-genre work in noise, jazz and electronic music; Søren Høi is one of Denmark’s most inventive drummers, merging precision with unhinged creativity; and Kristian Tangvik brings his synthesizer work and improvisational sensibility from Copenhagen’s avant-garde scene. At its core, the record treats rhythm as architecture. Every instrument acts as percussion, each with its own colour and instability, orbiting around Høi’s asymmetric drumming and Sok’s unmistakable voice. Córdoba’s production pushes his collage techniques toward a more physical tension: songs that are repetitive yet constantly shifting, cycling through breaks and build-ups until the sound itself begins to disintegrate. Guitars scrape, synths pulse, and voices fall into noise. The result is music both tight and unruly, dirty yet articulate. The band’s distinct personality emerges through a restless kind of songwriting – shifting from hybrids of electronica and guitar music (Out in the Westlands, Man Joke, Burned House), to crooked rock songs with unexpected turns (Oh My Butterfly, Shoelace), to tender experiments like Introduction to Poetry and the melodic, almost pop-inflected Mermaids and There Will Come Soft Rains. The thematic heart of the album lies in Sok’s lyrical meditations on politics, identity, relationships, and belonging. This House connects generations, genres, and scenes, and is currently preparing its debut album Soft Rains Will Come, to be released in Spring 2026 via Pink Cotton Candy Records (DK) in collaboration with Ramble (AU) and Red Wig (DE). “Soft Rains Will Come” will be available on Bandcamp and other selected digital platforms and streaming services starting March 20 2026.

Listen here: https://thishousecph.bandcamp.com/album/soft-rains-will-come