Are you looking at who is going to be taking over the music world in 2025? If so, look no further than Nat & Alex Wolff! We, like so many of you, have been lifelong fans of Nat & Alex Wolff, but this new era of music is so undeniable that their receiving their well-deserved flowers is inevitable. Nat & Alex Wolff have spent this last year working on movies, being on tour with their good friend Billie Eilish, and crafting their best music yet.
Their newest track is ‘Soft Kissing Hour,’ and as soon as we dove in, we immediately had so many thoughts and questions we needed to be broken down. Lucky for us, Nat was kind enough to do so
Listen to ‘Soft Kissing Hour’ here!
‘Soft Kissing Hour’ is the newest track! Upon listening to this track, it feels like a story that chronicles growing up and being loved. To you guys, what does the song encapsulate?
That’s such a beautiful interpretation. I think so too. It’s hard to know what a song is about because I always try to write from an unconscious space but upon reflection, I think it’s mainly about facing your past in order to love successfully as an adult and putting down your armor and surrendering.
“You Have All The Power” is one of those lines that, for us, immediately struck a chord. It’s both an empowering, and daunting thing. When you’re crafting a track such as ‘Soft Kissing Hour’ was there a lyric that as soon as you wrote it struck you like this lyric struck us?
Wow, that’s so great to hear it struck a chord with you. I think the lines “forget the day before this. forget the baseball mitt” were two lines that felt so personal I almost cut them out of the song because I felt like maybe it was embarrassing and it was only after Alex said “you can’t cut those they’re my favorite lines in the song” that I put them back in and now when I’ve been singing it live, actually those two hit the hardest for me.
You guys are currently on tour with your good friend Billie Eilish! Have you been able to play ‘Soft Kissing Hour’ at those shows yet? And if so, what emotions go into playing a new song for a crowd? Are there any nerves involved?
We’ve played ‘Soft Kissing Hour’ every night of the tour so far even in the shows leading up to the song’s release. It’s the only song in the set that Alex and I play alone without the rest of the band. We sit side stage, and it all feels really intimate. The nice thing is when the song came out suddenly everyone in Billie’s audience knew all the words which was so strange and gratifying. Although there were a few people singing “slow kissing hour” once in a while that I heard from the crowd which is understandable as my dad still accidentally refers to the song by that title
With a song like ‘Soft Kissing Hour’ where does the inspiration come from for the story being told? And do you know immediately that you want the “soft” in the song title to mirror the vibe the song creates?
Wow, that’s such an interesting question. I think the production of the song was so uniquely lo-fi with just Alex, Billie, and I all huddled around one handheld microphone, an acoustic guitar, and a piano that we had to mic from across the room because the chord wouldn’t reach, was such an intimate process that it mirrored the intimate feelings in the song.
‘Soft Kissing Hour’ comes out on the heels of ‘Backup Plan,’ the tracks are quite different sonically, but is there a thread between the two that ties them together? Or are these stand-alone tracks?
Definitely! They’re both tracks from our upcoming album which is more emotionally raw than anything we’ve done before and by our accounts the best music we’ve ever made and I’m excited for the rest of the songs to come out because I think they all work well as a unified piece.
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