SOFT RULES

Soft Rules are a Dublin post-punk band with a grudge and the songs to back it up.

Fronted by David Dee, they build tracks from the wreckage of alt-rock and new wave. Heavy where it needs to be, atmospheric where it doesn't, and lyrically intense.

The songs are preoccupied with the gap between how things are supposed to work and how they actually do.
Alienation, complicity, self-destruction, the suspicion that the system isn't broken but rather it's working exactly as intended. Dee writes from inside that tension rather than above it, which is what stops it tipping into polemic.

Live, they don't ask but rather demand your full attention. They've earned a reputation on the Dublin circuit for performances that feel less like gigs and more like arguments you didn't know you were having.

The Violence EP is out now. Start there.