Swiss five-piece Soft Loft chase the ghosts of old love through “F U WANT IT,” a spectacular indie pop anthem from their forthcoming sophomore album ‘Throw the Dice’ that captures the rush, panic, and strange freedom of growing up unfinished. In conversation with Atwood Magazine, frontwoman Jorina Stamm opens up about the record’s pull between rebellion and reason, the late-twenties extremes of craving calm while fearing you’re not living wildly enough, and the collective chemistry helping Soft Loft grow into their boldest, fullest sound yet.

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Being in your late twenties feels like constantly shifting between extremes, between finally finding a sense of calm and worrying you’re not living wildly enough. Between contentment and sudden panic that there’s still so much left undone, so much left to try.

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Restless and rapturous, Soft Loft’s “F U WANT IT” feels like the exact second an old feeling stops being a memory and becomes a song you can’t stop singing.

The Swiss band’s spectacular, cinematic indie pop anthem glows with the rush of a thought you should probably leave alone – an ex-lover turned ghost, a missed moment turned chorus, a late-twenties reckoning with timing, freedom, loneliness, and the maddening pull of what might have been.

Released in May as the second single from their forthcoming sophomore album Throw the Dice, the song is pure Soft Loft magic: Trembling and radiant, vulnerable and huge, carried by Jorina Stamm’s unmistakable voice as it turns unfinished feeling into a chorus that refuses to leave the mind. She sings of someone gone but not gone, wrong but still pressed against “the right spot,” and every word lands like a confession trying to laugh at itself before it becomes too true.

I took a walk some days ago
I thought about the time I almost fell,
cause I didn’t pack the right shoes
the bladder on my heel
was the least of our problems
I had a tickle up my nose and
I saw me sitting in the grass
and you hitting the gas
but the fever in my eyes
was the least of our problems

Soft Loft have always known how to make intimacy feel expansive. The five-piece from Switzerland – Jorina Stamm (vocals/guitar), Lukas Kuprecht (drums), Marius Meier (bass), Sarina Schmid (keyboards), and Simon Boss (guitar) – make songs that channel private feeling into communal release, pairing emotional exactness with arrangements that feel organic, cinematic, and deeply alive. That communal charge has helped Soft Loft travel far beyond their Swiss roots, from KEXP and BBC 6 Music support to European dates and festival stages including The Great Escape, Reeperbahn, and Montreux Jazz. The resume matters less than what all that playing has done to the songs: It has made their intimacy bigger, their hooks braver, and their emotional language more sure of itself.

“We’re five friends living for music and trying to capture life, in writing, in songs to have people connect with our feelings and stories,” they tell Atwood Magazine. 2024’s debut album The Party and The Mess gave grief, joy, friendship, and self-searching a tender, full-bodied home, while last year’s Modern Roses EP – which Atwood Magazine hailed as “a heartfelt, handmade collection that invites us to sit with our feelings… and find beauty in the in-between” – pushed the band into a more exploratory space, reconnecting them with what they wanted from their sound after that first full-length statement.

Soft Loft carry that self-trust into a wilder, more grown-up frame on Throw the Dice, out September 4^th via [PIAS] Recordings.

Recorded at Studio Black Box in France, produced by the band, and mixed by Grammy-winner Craig Silvey, the album is still alive to the mess and wonder of being human, but more alert to the contradictions of adulthood – the rebellious self and the reasonable self, the need for calm and the fear of becoming too still, the desire to love deeply and the equally strong desire not to be pinned down before life has had its say. Its title reads like a dare because the record keeps asking the same adult question from different angles: How do you move when you can’t know the outcome, and how do you stay open without waiting for certainty to save you? “F U WANT IT” sits right at that emotional crossroads, a coming-of-age anthem dressed in glistening guitars, warm momentum, and a refrain so sticky it practically melts into muscle memory.

last year is still all over me
you’re in my mind
you keep on calling me
I screamed at night
I’m not a medium
but felt pretty medium
when you called it off and
needed time

“Throw the Dice might even be the older sister to The Party and The Mess as it’s still all about life and experiences with it but a little more grown up, I guess?” Stamm explains. “What came together is a wild collection of songs, a snapshot of thoughts and feelings of that time. But when you listen to them as a whole, the common thread becomes obvious. They circle around growing older and feeling torn between your rebellious and your reasonable side. Around finding loved ones and losing loved ones, age as a number and age as a feeling, getting well, transience, and simply being alive.”

“F U WANT IT” transforms that tension into one of Soft Loft’s most immediate songs yet. Driven by acoustic guitar and a pulse that keeps pushing forward, the track has the lift of a classic pop anthem and the emotional shake of a voice trying to hold steady while the past keeps calling. Stamm’s vocal is astonishing here: Trembling without breaking, strong because it allows itself to sound wounded, sending shivers through every soul-stirring exhale. The verses move through odd, vivid fragments – a walk, the wrong shoes, a blistered heel, a feverish memory, a car pulling away – before the chorus opens into that irresistible, emotionally charged release. It’s catchy in the way great heartbreak songs are catchy: Not because the feeling is simple, but because the melody gives the mess a shape you can finally carry.

you are gone
but you’re not
you felt wrong
but the right spot
I’d still have you again
if you wanted
if you wanted
f*** you want it

“‘F U WANT IT’ really is the tenth attempt to get over the same heartbreak again and rethinking a past relationship, wondering if they could’ve been something more if only it had happened at a different time,” Stamm shares.

“Being in your late twenties feels like constantly shifting between extremes, between finally finding a sense of calm and worrying you’re not living wildly enough. Between contentment and sudden panic that there’s still so much left undone, so much left to try.”

“‘F U WANT IT’ lives in that uncertainty, in the tension between holding on and letting go, between timing and feeling, and in the quiet realization that sometimes, it’s not about the person, but about where you are in life when you meet them,” she continues. “We really tried writing a simple pop song here that is carried by voice and guitar only, which we thought would be easier than it turned out to be.”

I tend to shut down when you come too close
but with you all I thought I did was grow
yet often stories do not go the way
we think, yeah we should know
we’re not a feast but enjoy it
thinking of hours that we spent alone
I never met the people you could call
cause worlds were changing as a whole,
that’s not the reason we stayed home
we’re not a feast but enjoy it

last year is still all over me
you’re in my mind
you keep on calling me
I screamed at night
I’m not a medium
but felt pretty medium
when you called it off and
needed time

That simplicity gives the song its sting. “Last year is still all over me / you’re in my mind / you keep on calling me,” Stamm sings, turning memory into a presence that refuses to stay buried. The song understands the strange humiliation of still wanting a person you know wasn’t right, and the stranger tenderness of admitting that timing can be as decisive as love itself. “I tend to shut down when you come too close / but with you all I thought I did was grow,” she sings later, holding contradiction in both hands: Self-protection and openness, regret and desire, the wish to be wilder and the ache for stability. “F U WANT IT” doesn’t resolve that conflict. It lets the hook spin inside it until the title itself starts to change shape – a dare, a joke, a curse, a longing, a cheeky little flare sent toward the ghost who may have moved on first.

“Those lyrics come from a place of longing for something in the past, while at the same time knowing it probably wasn’t right for you,” Stamm says of “you are gone, but you’re not / you felt wrong, but the right spot.” “It’s that contradiction of missing something, or someone, even when you’re aware it didn’t fully work. And then there’s that question of what to do with those feelings when loneliness creeps in.”

Stamm begins to address that question in the song’s final rush. By the time she sings, “I’m switching between feeling like finally / being calm or not quite wild enough,” “F U WANT IT” has widened from one old relationship into a whole portrait of late-twenties restlessness: wanting everything, having not enough, trying to outgrow old ghosts while half-hoping they still know your name. Soft Loft make that uncertainty feel massive, melodic, and strangely freeing. This is a song for the beautiful mess of still being unfinished – for the loves that missed their moment, the lives we haven’t lived yet, and the part of us that can laugh, ache, and sing the whole thing back at full volume.

I’m switching between feeling like finally
being calm or not quite wild enough, mmhm
and suddenly I’m panicking cause there’s
still so much to do and I haven’t tried enough
but the least of our problems
but the least of our problems
the least of our problems
was wanting everything
and having not enough

The surrounding singles make clear that “F U WANT IT” is one bright, bruised piece of a record obsessed with growing up without a map.

On Throw The Dice, Soft Loft keep circling the gamble of adulthood: When to be brave, when to let go, when to choose yourself, and how to keep moving when certainty never shows up on time.

“Caught” kicks the door open with missed chances and the wish to be braver, while newly released single “Wednesdays” turns from romantic ghosts toward self-reliance, mental health, and the small acts of care that keep a person moving. Inspired by Mean Girls’ pink-on-Wednesdays shorthand for belonging, Stamm flips the line into a Soft Loft kind of affirmation: Choose yourself, even when that means stepping away from the group and learning how to sit with your own company.

“‘Wednesdays’ is about mental health and the small, everyday rituals we lean on to keep going – taking walks, eating better, buying yourself flowers, or simply telling yourself that today might be okay,” Stamm shares. “At its core, the song reflects on learning to rely on yourself. It’s about taking responsibility for your own well-being, making changes when you need to, and slowly finding a sense of peace without depending on others for validation or happiness.”

Taken together, these three singles sharpen Throw The Dice’s central tension: Growing up means making peace with the fact that certainty may never arrive, and choosing a life anyway.

Wanting the right person at the wrong time is one version of the story; learning not to hand someone else the steering wheel is another. Soft Loft are writing about growing up as an emotional gamble – accepting uncertainty, choosing the next honest thing, and trusting that even unanswered questions can become a kind of forward motion.

That wider frame only makes “F U WANT IT” hit harder. For all the album’s self-reliance, missed chances, acts of bravery, and attempts at steadiness, this song remains its most irresistible open wound: The place where the past still has a voice, the hook still has a pulse, and the mess of wanting refuses to behave.

As Soft Loft put it, “Life and love is frustrating and so the song in the end might also be a cheeky, ‘f***, you, want it’ to the ghost who seems to have managed to bury your ghost a long time ago.”

That flash of cheek is part of the catharsis. “F U WANT IT” is Soft Loft at their most anthemic and emotionally electric: A soul-stirring pop triumph that turns longing into lift, regret into release, and romantic uncertainty into a chorus bright enough to follow you home. It’s spectacular because it knows the mess is the point. It’s unforgettable because Stamm sings like the feeling is still happening in real time. And once that hook gets in, good luck getting it out.

The larger story is one of a band betting on the messy, thrilling process of becoming – letting old heartbreaks sing, letting new routines steady them, and letting each release move them closer to the sound they hear in their heads. Throw The Dice may be filled with questions, but Soft Loft sound increasingly sure of how they want to ask them: With honesty, community, melody, and enough momentum to make uncertainty feel alive.

Atwood Magazine recently caught up with Soft Loft to step inside the world of Throw The Dice – a record of old ghosts, private reckonings, missed chances, pop instincts, and five friends learning how to trust the next honest choice.

you are gone
but you’re not
you felt wrong
but the right spot
I’d still have you again
if you wanted
if you wanted
if you wanted
f*** you want it

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A CONVERSATION WITH SOFT LOFT

Soft Loft (Jorina Stamm): Hii! So nice to talk again, thanks for having us! We’re Soft Loft, a band from Switzerland, five friends living for music and trying to capture life, in writing, in songs to have people connect with our feelings and stories.

Soft Loft: I’d start with “Rose Colored.” It’s always been a favorite for all of us. It was just a really fun song to record, and you can feel that in it. It doesn’t carry the same emotional weight as some of our other songs, it’s more about lifting your mood and letting go for a bit. “Is It Me” is special in a completely different way. It was the very first single we ever released, so it’ll always mean a lot to us. It also kind of feels like a “lost hit.” It didn’t really take off when we put it out, but live, it has this incredible energy. People really connect to it in the room.

From our debut album, I’d highlight “The Party And The Mess.” The quieter songs tend to get overlooked, but they’re just as important to us. That one is about losing my grandma, trying to give her life a space in the music, and at the same time making sense of life itself. That idea that life is always both a party and a mess ended up shaping the whole album, which is why we named it after that song.

Then from our second EP Modern Roses, which was more about experimenting and finding our voice again after the album, I’d point to a couple of tracks that show a different side of us. “Can” feels both sad and wholesome at the same time, it’s actually some of my favorite lyrics I’ve written. It’s about trying to open up, even when that’s hard sometimes. And “Le Parfait” is a bit of a special one, it’s actually a demo. We tried re-recording it, but it never felt as right as the original version, so we decided to keep it as it was and put the demo on the EP. That felt kind of bold, but it also really fits the spirit of that project, making decisions that feel honest and good to us.

Soft Loft: So glad to read that these are some of your favorite Soft Loft songs on there! We signed with our label [PIAS] Recordings for this EP, so I think that’s always gonna be something that sticks with us, cause it was kind of a big step for us. And also we learned so much about what we want for our music with this EP, as we tried doing it all by ourselves: the writing as well as the recording, which was just such an essential experience for us to keep growing with our music.

We love these songs dearly still and I hope to get back to some of these moods someday.

Soft Loft: There’s so much music that inspires us. There’s modern pop songs of artists like Gracie Abrams or Holly Humberstone that I have on repeat for days, there’s that Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” pick up and Joni Mitchell’s “A Case Of You” with words that just feel like the most beautiful song that’s ever been written or there’s the drive of a Sam Fender song and there’s so much more just to name a few.

I think one of the most exciting parts about making music is growing alongside it. As you get older, new experiences and perspectives naturally find their way into what you write. You can actually hear that evolution over time, and that’s something I find really special.

We’re constantly discovering new things, sounds or little tricks that make our music better.

Soft Loft: Throw The Dice might even be the older sister to The Party and The Mess as it’s still all about life and experiences with it but a little more grown up I guess?

We started working on these songs in 2024 and kept going right up until we entered the studio. At this time we were playing a lot of shows, so the initial motivation was also to write songs that would be really fun to play live. What came together is a wild collection of songs, a snapshot of thoughts and feelings of that time. But when you listen to them as a whole, the common thread becomes obvious. They circle around growing older and feeling torn between your rebellious and your reasonable side. Around finding loved ones and losing loved ones, age as a number and age as a feeling, getting well, transience, and simply being alive.

So I guess Throw The Dice reintroduces a grown version of Soft Loft that’s really all about growing up as well.

Soft Loft: “Caught” is kicking off the topic quite well, it’s about missed chances and wanting to be braver in life, in love but really in a lot of stuff. The song has a lot of energy, which made it a natural opener for this new chapter. It kind of holds everything together while still showing a new side of us. Some people have even said, “oh, you’re making rock music now,” which is fun to hear as we’ve always loved the idea of touching new genres and seeing where that takes us.

Soft Loft: “F U WANT IT” really is the tenth attempt to get over the same heartbreak again and rethinking a past relationship, wondering if they could’ve been something more if only it had happened at a different time. Being in your late twenties feels like constantly shifting between extremes, between finally finding a sense of calm and worrying you’re not living wildly enough. Between contentment and sudden panic that there’s still so much left undone, so much left to try.

“F U WANT IT” lives in that uncertainty, in the tension between holding on and letting go, between timing and feeling, and in the quiet realization that sometimes, it’s not about the person, but about where you are in life when you meet them.

We really tried writing a simple pop song here that is carried by voice and guitar only, which we thought would be easier than it turned out to be.

Soft Loft: Haha, I think part of me really does live for the mess, although the craving for some calm and stability is definitely there too. Those lyrics come from a place of longing for something in the past, while at the same time knowing it probably wasn’t right for you. It’s that contradiction of missing something, or someone, even when you’re aware it didn’t fully work.

And then there’s that question of what to do with those feelings when loneliness creeps in.

Soft Loft: At this point, I think we’re really focused on letting the Soft Loft sound breathe and evolve more naturally, rather than trying to define it too rigidly. It feels less like chasing a specific direction and more like following what feels honest in the moment.

Compared to earlier on, we’ve become more confident in our choices whether that’s leaning into something more energetic, or stripping things back when a song needs space. I think we’ve really reconnected with our love for pop music, while still keeping a strong interest in more experimental ideas. It’s that balance between different directions that really defines our sound.

Soft Loft: As always, I hope people can connect with the music and the stories behind it, and that these songs can accompany them through different moments in life. I hope listeners, no matter their age, relate to that feeling of being overwhelmed by adulthood, but also to the idea of trying to live life as fully as possible, even if it’s just in small steps.

For us, releasing new music is always a special moment. It feels like letting these stories go out into the world and live their own life, while also making space for new ones to begin.

Soft Loft: Been listening to Dottie Andersson – Wind that makes the subway sound on repeat so you might end up having this on repeat as well <3

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