Softcult Gaslight, Indie88 Live Sessions

Softcult, led by sisters Mercedes and Phoenix ArnHorn, are a shoegaze, grunge, dreampop band based out of Kitchener, Ontario. They released their first tracks in early 2021, and their first EP Year Of The Rat in April. You can watch Softcult live, performing their two latest singles in the studio for Indie88s Live Sessions series. This isnt their first time recording together, the pair played in another band, Courage My Love, since 2009. They signed as Softcult to Easy Life Records in 2020 with the vision of creating a new project that focuses on social commentary. In our previous project, we were signed to a label that butted heads with us creatively and wasnt allowing us to express ourselves authentically, Mercedes ArnHorn explains. They werent interested in the music we were creating at the time. We became unhealthily obsessed with trying to please them to release anything at all. Softcult takes inspiration from the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s. They cite legendary punk band Bikini Kill as a