Eight Gigs: Soft Kill

Soft Kill delivers solid post-punk with its arsenal of brooding, synth-drenched songs abundant with pensive disillusionment. Somber vocals coupled with shoegaze tendencies amplify the sense of dark rumination into the realm of the meditative—how pain is sickly sweet, how affliction is proof of existence. You know, post-punk stuff. Soft Kill has been honing its melancholic sensibility since 2010, and this year’s album, Choke, shows off a continuing refinement of said sensibility, with eight songs chock-full of wounded energy, cloaked anticipation and aggrandized despair. 1517 21st Street, www.anopendoor.bandcamp.com.