The Soft Hills

The Soft Hills are the musical adventure of Garrett Hobba, Brittan Drake, Randall Skrasek, and Brett Massa. A Seattle-based band with as much affinity for sweet melodies as experimentation, their songs draw from a wide range of influences from folk to psychedelic to ambient, drawing on literary and philosophical themes, and incorporating experiences from dreams and the extraterrestrial. Listeners sometimes compare them to The Flaming Lips because of their simple heartfelt melodies which spiral into space.

With a growing sense of recognition, The Soft Hills find themselves developing a focused and crafted sound, headlining major venues in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and getting airplay on radio stations world-wide.

This last year involved many cosmic adventures, including performing live on KEXP, embarking on their 2nd US tour, playing Noise For The Needy music festival, being featured on the Ball of Wax compilation, and playing shows with Karl Blau.

The band just finished their 3rd album, “The Bird is Coming Down to Earth”!

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"The Soft Hills make music that is undeniably art--not business, not pop machine, but art. If these sounds were a painting, their warm, psych-folk glow would be the light of the surrealists. They would have borrowed Grizzly Bear's canvas, Beach House's colors, Sigur Ros' brushes and returned them all ruined. And the soft hills stretched across the image would not be some overdone, unmoving pasture, but a spiraling, swarming, swirling desert expanse." ~Seattle Weekly

"Seattle’s The Soft Hills have a soft, psychedelic sound that brings to mind the lighter touch of the piano-heavy Radiohead songs and “Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometimes” by Beck. Their Painted World EP is exceptional." Gabriel Arguelles, ~Seattle Show Gal

"Think of them as Seattle's chilled-out answer to The Shins" ~Indie-Music.com

"Radiohead’s ambience, Bread’s guitars, a splash of Flaming Lips’ rhythm and some fabulous songwriting skills add up (remarkably) to create that poppy, indie sound that has managed to enchant music lovers and hipsters." ~The Eugene Weekly

"There’s a trend in indie music to sound like you live in the woods and take psychedelic drugs while making music. The Soft Hills, unlike their hipster peers, never sounds labored. Their music ebbs and flows like waves and rustles like tree leaves, without a thought to the current musical climate. At their best they resemble a young, rural Flaming Lips." ~Monterey County Weekly

"The Soft Hills revel in songcraft as much as sound, melody as much as atmosphere, beauty as much as melancholy." ~The Big Takeover

"A fascinating band that has worked too hard to remain tucked away in Seattle, the Soft Hills deserve national recognition." ~Ben Tully, Seattle Show Gal

"The Soft Hills new EP, Painted World, depicts the serene soundtrack to what is quite possibly one of Wayne Coyne's day dreams..." ~The Levee Breaking