Jeremiah Soft - A Quiver Full Of Golden Arrows (2024)

Join us on a journey through space and time with the debut album of Jeremiah Soft, the mystical figure now returning to Dalmata Daniel. He made the album between November 2021 and June 2022, a time during which he got closer to nature, long walks, and existing in forests in general. Through 9 tracks and 60 minutes, we can wander around atmospheric universes, walk up the hills and down the paths of the mind of the artist.

Throughout the whole album, a sense of calmness is prevalent regardless of the rapidity of the songs. A dichotomy is created by the soft, acoustic sounding melodies and the quick, abruptly changing, metallic drum patterns. Just like the wilderness, it becomes a balanced system of tranquil harmony and tense alertness.

Side A of the cassette starts out with two melodic pieces, ‘Quicksilver Qualities’ and ‘Vermillion’, operating with ambient-like synths and delicate drums. Then, almost as if nightfall came, we venture into darker territories. The next two tracks, ‘Chiroptera’ and ‘Flight of the Vesper Bat’, as the titles suggest, serve as musical notations of the aeronautics of the nocturnal creatures; the kick-drums arrive, the basslines are getting heavier, and the playfulness of these songs turns into almost chaos. ‘The Pacific Crest Trail’ features as an interlude, and we experience a few moments of stillness in the dark with a muffled, dubby soundscape.

Side B rushes into an 11 minute heavy-hitter, ‘PNW’, packed with action and amen break. ‘Amber Eyes’ is of the same weight, which is perhaps the coldest in tune out of all with its strikingly digital sound design, is the track for the freezing minutes just before dawn. Sunrise strikes with the rework of Bach’s cantata in which the morning birds also start to sing. ‘Elliptic Routes’ comes with a bittersweet melody and a comforting rhythm, and accompanies us back to daylight, the universe most known to humans.


– Borbála Kovács