Soldiers Of Fortune began as an anti-band and since their creation have grown into one of the most recognized indie superbands, combining members of powerhouses like Oneida, Chavez, and Interpol. This Friday, November 6th, their second LP Early Risers will be released via Mexican Summer and today the album is streaming in full on Noisey. Early Risers is available for pre-order on iTunes or Amazon with instant downloads of their past three singles, "Nails", "Old Roman Wall" featuring Cass McCombs, and "Campus Swagger" featuring Stephen Malkmus.
In the beginning, SOF's only goal was to play a rare show every now and then that they could assault, terrorize, and shred, but after meeting with Keith Abrahamsson and learning what his label Mexican Summer was all about SOF conceded and signed a deal. Months later, in August, they were in an unfinished Gary's Electric studio on the hottest three days of 2010, and somehow walked out of the studio with a 12" called Ball Strenth. Now here they are another five years, very few shows, or LPs sold, later: in 2013 the band got bamboozled by Keith into a SECOND recording sesh (WTF!?!), but this time were offered "undisclosed" amounts of studio time alongside the usual "carte blanche". This of course meant string sections were hired, arrangers and composers enlisted, backup singers hit on, music biz lawyers attending mixing sessions, blowouts between the band and food delivery men, coffee pouring into the bass amp etc. After three weeks of this SOF aborted EVERYTHING, took a six-month hiatus to get over their collective S.E.N.D. (Sophomore Effort Narcissism Disease), fell back in the studio and recorded a dozen embryonic 'song ideas', rather than jams, over an afternoon. They then called up friends who know how to sing and finished up the damn thing in three days.Videos