The Soft Moon - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) 

Rest In Peace Luis. Great inspiration!!

went to their very first concert at the Milk Bar in SF, CA!! 2010 Ive been a fan and his passing is heart breaking. Thanks for the inspiration and letting me in backstage. Great guy and amazing musician. Sadder world without you.

Farewell, mate. Your music lives forever

Awesome band - reminds me of some of the early 80's bands like Danse Society, Virgin Prunes, Cocteau Twins, Cure etc etc etc. Love the sound.

First time I saw then was like a punch in my face from the first second. I will remember that concert forever. One of my favourite bands.

Jesus this is 9 years old, I remember listening to it when it just came out. Sounds just as fresh 😎🔥

I grew upon this fabulous music and didn't realize anyone was still making good post punk and dark wave. Bravo.

19 Years of 80 retro-sound and still no end. how cool is that?! :D

Rest in peace brother

RIP Luis!! The moon miss yoy!

Wonderful discover. Very good band!

Ребята давно вас слушаю вы лучшие!!!

Amazing Band! Genius, surprised they have not really blown up. They deserve to be huge!

I still can't believe it! RIP Luis

Luis Vasquez et tous le groupe....Bravo .j'ai pas écouté quelque chose d'aussi bon depuis longtemps.

We are Soft Moon, Soft Moon are we.

My favorite band in years. I catch them every time they come thru NYC... I hear the Joy Division influence, the bass lines can be very Peter Hook sounding... But that sure as hell ain't a bad thing to me...

Heard them the first time a few days ago as they played live as opener for Depeche Mode. Sure, not everyones Music. But I love it.

tremenda banda! , pueden insertarse a un género sin dejar de ser creativos. The soft moon suena como The soft moon, increíble.

They are the awesomest.

Thank you Luis for the tripping sound, you´re a fantastic live band, we want to see The Soft Moon again :D

This was truly amazing,found out about this and was instantly hooked

FANTASTIC

Cheryl Waters is the plug

I love them!

Absolutely love this band and their sound. This performance is great and makes me wonder when they´re going to come over here, to play live.

R.I.P.

shouting "THIS BAND SOUNDS JUST LIKE JOY DIVISION" is a great way of casually indicating that you haven't listened to much Joy Division.

They're just the best....

monumentali!!!

🖤💔✊🏻

love this band

man, this is now, but it's taking me back to my keg-party days. and i like it!!! hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Im so thankful for KEXP, thankyou!

to show My deep respekt i took My unknown pleasures shirt in the first row to wear ...and its the best band and know how to play and to express i know... so to me the new Ian Curtis is alive....in a progressive sound of our Zeitgeist...new elements and i love Love love this sound like nothing before....

Great band, saw them in Italy at a music festival, awesome!

Cada vez que arranca una canción : waaaoowww

wooooooooouh !!

Badass! all around.

I think I'm in love with fall.

Stemming and inspiration is one thing, but my response was about people who claim groups "rip off" JD. I agree with your opinion by far, Joy Division greatly shifted music and are definitely one of the best. Peter Hook's book is awesome and loved it and learned alot. My point is I'm just tired of people using them consistently to bring good bands down that may not really be looking at JD when writing. The 80's had tons of fresh ideas, there are tons of styles and groups to inspire from.

how i would love to have that moog sub phatty !!! great band, cool sounds

Killer Sounds Smashing together to form Delight* ....like when you've upset a bee's nest, but yet you are not alarmed by the situation*

A nostalgia to the future.........!?!?

great !

i like that this might seem as though #snl featured this a few times during opening monologues but i mostly just really enjoy the music the soft moon makes and the artists kexp places in these situations - it provides me the ability to imagine being there live and also traveling time, sitting on the floor being intimate

awesome

Juste perfect •_•

Unbelievable

"We are We" has a hint of Paul Reynolds style guitar playing from the band "A Flock of Seagulls" from the 1980's.

If I really have to say this song reminds me of such and such, I would probably have to point towards the early albums of Clan of Xymox

I love KEXP radio. Holy shit. Thanks.

😭😭

bass sounding like cocteau twins or somthing around the @11:40 mark. That was pretty cool lol

Does anyone know what kind of pedal the bassist is using? Such a perfect sound!

Good Stuff!!

🌹🥀🥀🥀

Saw these guys at Austin Psych Fest. They were great! Drummer was working his ass off.

a lot of the bands are going to have joy division influences because joy division was one of the most influential post punk bands ever.

great

I am 75% sure that it is influnced for And Also The Trees sound. Great band.

The Danse Society mixed with The Cure...hello again...love it

6:16 thanx that you don't show the band on your covers. please keep it like that !! The graphix are very good

Anything music wise that hits Seattle will end up in B.C. - so about 2 years ago we go to the Victoria Ballroom to see Prince Innocence and these guys opened - a hard act to follow for sure, really caught everyone by surprise x (Prince who?) Kimmels? lol vous, les Americains fous - funny

yeeaa the gud

fuckin awesome cant wait to see them at the echo!

sholy hit

We Are We ❤

does any body know what the distortion style effect he's using?? also the echo style,like it continues the note played on guitar ,i know he uses a roland space echo but i wonder what else

Hi, can someone suggest the names of the songs in this performance?

I don't hear it much..some groups yes but other than a dominant bassline and your typical 80's drum rhythm, I don't see much of a huge sound alike. Joy Division wasn't the first post-punk band, nor were they the best at it...but that doesn't mean everyone who's inspired by the 80's is ripping JD off. I'm so tired of seeing every post-punk band with Joy Division comments flooding the video responses...learn more about a genre instead of just big names.

This revaival of the post punk scene of the 80s is sooo awesome. The only thing that really sucks is the name that they got. NEO POTS PUNK! wtf?

Está mamalona la banda

Imho Robert Smith would be very proud me likes as well

I kind of agree with you on this, this sounds nothing like Joy Division. Actually, it sounds a lot like the Cure. But, Joy Division did things that were unheard of at the time (more their producer) - they did greatly shift music. They aren't just a big name, ALBEIT I completely see where you are coming from.

Orgasmo sonoro atemporal

You're almost Robert Smith! Good job 😁

a modern goth influenced post-punk band that has a lot of Joy Division elements to them would be Soft Kill

NIN-CHRISTIAN DEATH AND THE SOFT MOON

The bassist is hot...

flanger pedals all the way

Rico postpunk

Live this guitar rips your head off just FYI.

I'm not even touching that one..

I dub thee..swirl punk.

I learned about these guys from my friend who owns a record store. I played him my latest demos and he put some of these guys on. Somewhat similar. I like my band better, but these guys are cool even if his vocals are terribly boring. Lose the delay on the vocal, dude. Or maybe just use it occasionally so it doesn't become cliche.

haha this is jimmy kimmels band cant believe jimmy kimmel has a band

well... to me it sounds like they just ripped off the sound of early Dead Can Dance. it sounds great and probably fun for them to play the songs. the vocals are not interesting at all! but you've got to start somewhere, right?!?

Never heard of these before & now I know why can't believe how bad they are sound like they only have one tune & it's all been done before 100% better...

post punk is not even a genre .

I am very sad

great!