Soft Play - Heavy Jelly
Life is cruel.
As touring commitments concluded for the artists formerly known as Slaves back in 2019, the two-man band were falling apart, barely able to even speak to one another despite playing to their largest-ever audiences.
It was agreed that a break was required, before real life intervened.
As well as the pandemic, Isaac Holman was thrown into a mental health crisis (suffering from two separate forms of OCD), while the mother of Laurie Vincent’s children sadly passed away after a cancer diagnosis.
Both needed time to heal and pursued solo projects: Holman channelled his vulnerabilities into two fragile albums under the moniker Baby Dave, while Vincent expanded his sonic palette via the Larry Pink The Human project.