Rationalism (2025)
Label: Spirit Goth Records
Darksoft is a multi-instrumentalist songwriter and producer who creates dreamy indie rock sounds. Blending dream pop, shoegaze, and alternative rock with lush melodies and introspective lyrics, Darksoft explores universal truths and existential themes.
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Darksoft is a multi-instrumentalist songwriter and producer who creates dreamy indie rock sounds. Darksoft songs blend dream pop and shoegaze elements, using lush melodic progressions, 80s/90s alternative rock undertones, and deftly executed vocals.
Lyrically, he weaves through clichés, platitudes, and aphorisms that explore universal truths and philosophical themes, giving his music an introspective and existential edge. Darksoft is a solo recording project often supported by a full band for live shows.
To date, Darksoft has released a handful of self-produced conceptual albums. His most recent albums, Rationalism (2025), Relativism (2024), and Grayscale (2023), were released with Spirit Goth Records.
Beigeification (2023) delivers a postmodern blend of surfy sounds and beigey moods, self-released through Look Up Records with tapes printed by 2060 Records. In recent years, Darksoft has toured the northeast, west coast, and Pacific Northwest.
Cryo (2022) also gained national radio attention, with the track "Looking Backward" landing on Spotify’s Indie Fresh Finds playlist. His earlier albums, Meltdown (2020) and Brain (2018), explore themes of digital futurism and watery introspection, blending computer-age anxiety with raw human emotion — pure enough to pass the Turing Test.
Darksoft is originally from Seattle, where he participated in the local music scene for years. In 2021, he moved his family to Portland, Maine. Besides producing Darksoft, he has produced music under several other monickers. Darksoft tries to support other musicians, too. He manages Look Up Records, a small independent music label and blog.
For booking inquiries, sync licensing, collaborations, or just to say hello, email darksoftband@gmail.com.
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Label: Spirit Goth Records
Label: Spirit Goth Records
Label: Spirit Goth Records
Label: Look Up Records
Label: Look Up Records
Label: Look Up Records
Label: Look Up Records
Here are some nice things that music journalists have had to say about Darksoft. I truly appreciate these folks and the time they've taken getting to know my music and sharing it with their readers:
Darksoft talks influences, creative processes and more [Interview] - iGuitar.com
"a full experience" - start-track.com
"chiming goth rock and twee power pop" - Vinyl Moon 111: Facade Arcade
"an enchanting and dreamy slice of ear candy" - Eclectic Music Lover
"silvery guitar tones that graze '80s new wave" - Down East Magazine, November 2024
Top 10 albums of 2023 - JanglePopHub
"chiming guitars, dayglo synths and earworm melodies" - The Top 10 Shoegaze Albums of 2023, Micro Genre Music
"a smooth-as-silk mélange of keys and guitars...compulsively alluring" - The Big Takeover, edition #92
"Everything that catchy indie rock should have" - Start-Track
“It Is What It Is.” An Interview With Darksoft - forestpunk
"sumptuous and pleasing" - Eclectic Music Lover
"strangely heartening" - JanglePopHub
"aching guitar chords and hushed, velvety vocals" - The Big Takeover, edition #91
"Only Time Will Tell is a lush and dreamy track" - Destroy//Exist
"fresh, light and sublime" - Zone Nights
"every time I replayed ‘Only Time Will Tell’ I felt renewed" - mp3hugger
"soothing, bittersweet vocals and hypnotic guitar work" - Post-punk.com
"infectious melodies progressions and ‘90s rock undertones" - V13
"one motherfucker of an album that grabs hold on first listen and refuses to let go" - Vanyaland
"beautiful melodies, outstanding guitar work, and stunning vocals" - Eclectic Music Lover
"an evocative piece of dream theater with grunge leanings" - American Pancake
"the most beautiful jangle-gaze aesthetic. A real find for me." - JanglePopHub
"slow, straightforward and sad alt rock" - Rock The Pigeon
"a gauze of shimmering shoegaze" - ohestee
Photo story: SWYM, Sealife, Darksoft, Daycones - Dan's Tunes