PHF Goes Soft On New Tune 'Sometimes'

PHF (formerly Perfect Hair Forever) is a strange crossbreed of 2010s bedroom producer and a lo-fi power pop band. The tunes are created by PHF mastermind Joe Locke then reinterpreted by a band (featuring Noisey favorite Totems on drums) to add the rawer energy needed to pull them off live.

However, for PHF’s new album Soft, you might wonder whether Locke needs a band at all. Following on from some of the synth pop elements of his last record Grind Stat, “Sometimes” has the producer doing away with guitars to lean more on keyboards and simplicity. It’s an oddity of a track with fuzzy vocals buried so deep that they’re more of a rhythmic instrument than a lead. It works though.

We tracked down Joe to ask him a few questions about the forthcoming record and transfering the whole thing to a live show.

Noisey: Do you like the television program Perfect Hair Forever? You don’t really have any hair.
Joe Locke: Do you have any jobs going right now?

“Sometimes” is different to the more energetic stuff we've heard from you. The album is called Soft. Is it all like this?
The whole album is a fucking mess to be honest. It’s like 3 or 4 different vibes. I just got bored of making shit all the same so its more like a mixtape of real pussy shit

What's the most difficult thing of having a band re-interpret your tracks and how are you going to play them live?
I’ve got no idea how we are gonna do the shit off this one. We fucked round with a synth the other day at practice but i dont know we will prob end up just playing it with guitars and shit - its all real slow so maybe we will get bored as hell and just change all of them back to one-minute hardcore songs.

'Soft' is available Aug 20 through Crystal Magic records.