Yellow Ostrich
What's a man? I'm just as soft as I can be
—"Timothy"
Soft is the gorgeous new LP from Yellow Ostrich. It takes its name from the lyric that stands as a thesis for the entire album, a beautiful and haunting rumination on the pitfalls and pressures of traditional masculinity and on band founder Alex Schaaf's drive toward vulnerability and tenderness as core tenets of his being.
The album's ten tracks represent the first new music in seven years to be released by Schaaf under the Yellow Ostrich moniker, since he paused the project to explore new musical identities on a handful of excellent self-released albums (from which much of the best music is included on the stellar compilation Like A Bird: An Alex Schaaf Anthology 2010-2021).
Yellow Ostrich just released the beautiful Make It Make Sense EP which you can listen to now at digital retailers everywhere! Produced by Mike Noyce (Bon Iver, Tallest Man on Earth) the new EP was released during Yellow Ostrich’s recent month-long residency shows in their hometown of Minneapolis, MN. Make It Make Sense comes on the heels of the band's pandemic-delayed U.S. tour this fall in support of their 2021 banger Soft, available digitally and on limited-edition pink vinyl in our shop. 27 Jan 2023
