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Director: Alex Pace

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Following their recent Awake EP and shimmering cover of Billie Eilish’s “Everything I Wanted,” their new album, The Shape of Everything (Pelagic Records), finds SOM refining their “doom pop” sound, with ethereal heartfelt vocals atop huge riffs alternating between gritty & atmospheric.

Following the acclaim accrued by 2018 debut The Fall, the group (comprised of current and former members of Constants, Junius, and recent Grammy nominees Caspian) had planned to enter the studio in 2020 to record their anticipated follow-up. However, pandemic-induced lockdown forced the tireless creatives to improvise and record entirely remotely, producing 2021’s luscious Awake EP (Pelagic Records).

This new workflow redefined SOM’s process, which carried into the completion of their new LP. Its concise compositions balance the gritty riffs of Deftones with airy, Tame Impala-esque vocal lines, just as primed for rock radio as for shoegaze-loving connoisseurs. The album was mixed by Will Benoit at his own Radar Studio in Connecticut – New England’s first solar-powered recording facility.

The tracks are part of SOM’s ongoing mission to “leave this place better than we found it.” Frontman Will Benoit co-founded the outfit with drummer and former Constants colleague Duncan Rich, as well as Adai founder and now-Caspian drummer Justin Forrest. While touring on The Fall, the band recruited old friends guitarists Mike Repasch-Nieves and Joel M. Reynolds, both formerly of Junius and Driftoff.

SOM has used the darkness of recent times to create and heal. The Shape of Everything’s introspective bliss is an insight into the kind of harmony the quintet seek to cultivate in all facets of life. The band will be on tour in North America in May 2022 with Slow Crush, and across Europe and the UK in January/February 2023 with Katatonia and Sólstafir.

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