In an era of overstimulation and algorithm-driven hooks, Nat & Alex Wolff’s “Soft Kissing Hour” offers something radically different: silence, space, and sincerity. Re-released with a dreamlike visual directed by acclaimed filmmaker Gia Coppola, the song finds the brothers stepping away from spectacle and into the stillness. It’s a soft-rock meditation on desire, distance, and the delicate weight of memory, and it might just be their most arresting work yet.
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“Soft Kissing Hour” – Nat & Alex Wolff
There’s something undeniably magnetic about the quiet ache of “Soft Kissing Hour,” the latest single-turned-short film from indie rock siblings Nat & Alex Wolff.
Originally released in the tail end of 2024, the track has now been given a second, cinematic life, one that floats in and out of time, thanks to a mesmerizing visual directed by none other than Gia Coppola.
Screened at a velvet-curtained event hosted by Amazon Music, the video arrives not just as an accessory to the song, but as its full-bodied realization: intimate, textured, and devastatingly tender.
Paying by the hour
You know I’m missing you
Hear the running of the shower
Zipper on your black boots
Hell I’m doomed
When I step in your room
It’s the soft kissing hour
It’s the soft kissing hour
And you have all the power
You have all the power
The video opens with a moving sky, clouds meandering, sun flaring through twilight. There’s no set, no spectacle. Just motion. It’s a world removed from the chaos of the everyday, suspended in a pocket of longing. Coppola’s direction strips away everything that might distract, leaving space only for feeling. It’s a masterclass in restraint, how to say more with less, how to summon memory without showing its edges.
In this suspended world, Alex sits quietly with his acoustic guitar, fingers gently tracing out the song’s delicate melodic skeleton. Opposite him, Nat stands with an open stillness, letting the lyrics unfurl like a whispered secret. His voice, breathy and bare, seems to hang in the air even after the words are gone. It’s this kind of quiet courage that defines “Soft Kissing Hour.” There’s no posturing here, no performative angst, just two brothers daring to be soft in a world that often punishes vulnerability.
You smell like you’ve been sleeping
In my clothes under the sheets
Dropped off with a suitcase
And bars on your teeth
Hot white light
Keep me up all night
Produced by Billie Eilish, a pairing that initially surprises, then makes perfect sense, the track leans into a minimalist, almost skeletal arrangement.
But it’s in that sparseness where the power lies. Eilish’s signature subtlety as a producer is on full display: no big drops, no unnecessary swells, just an intuitive understanding of how to create space for emotion. She lets the silences speak, and the result is a track that feels more like a journal entry set to music than a commercial single.
The song itself is a reflection on fleeting intimacy, on the kind of closeness that lingers just long enough to leave a scar. “Soft Kissing Hour” doesn’t beg for love, it mourns it. It remembers it. It stares at the ceiling at 2 AM and wonders what could have been. It’s that moment when the world feels impossibly still, and the only thing louder than the silence is your own memory.
It’s the soft kissing hour
It’s the soft kissing hour
And you have all the power
You have all the power
Nat & Alex Wolff are no strangers to evolution. From teen idols to serious musicians, their trajectory has always felt both organic and restless. With “Soft Kissing Hour,” they show just how far they’ve come, not only in sound but in spirit. This isn’t a song written to impress; it’s a song written to feel. And it feels deeply.
That’s not to say the track exists in a vacuum. There are fingerprints of influence all over it: echoes of Nick Drake’s gentle melancholy, the bedroom folk intimacy of Elliott Smith, and even a hint of Fleetwood Mac’s soft-rock romance. But what sets it apart is how those influences are worn not as costumes, but as skin. The Wolff brothers aren’t imitating, they’re inheriting. And they’re doing it on their own terms.
“Soft Kissing Hour” also builds on the themes explored in their previous release, “Backup Plan,” another track laced with yearning and rich in restraint. But where “Backup Plan” felt like a guarded confession, “Soft Kissing Hour” is a full surrender. It’s braver. It cuts deeper.
Coppola’s visual treatment doesn’t just mirror the song’s mood, it elevates it. Her use of natural light, her fondness for visual liminality, and her quiet lensing of intimacy turn the video into something more than a narrative. It’s an atmosphere. A mood piece. A meditation. It doesn’t just depict a memory, it becomes one.
Forget the day before this
Forget the baseball mitt
Teardrops on your pillow
Bite your bottom lip
You’re still my girl
And it’s your world
It’s the soft kissing hour
It’s the soft kissing hour
And you have all the power
At their best, Nat & Alex Wolff evoke that golden era of rock where lyrics mattered, where emotion led the way, where the goal wasn’t chart dominance but emotional resonance.
“Soft Kissing Hour” doesn’t try to be everything; it tries to be honest. And in doing so, it accomplishes more than many tracks twice as loud.
For a band that’s always been caught somewhere between spotlight and shadow, this single feels like a new dawn. It’s not a reinvention. It’s a refinement. A soft but resolute statement: This is who we are now. And this is how we feel.
The promise of more music later this year only heightens the anticipation. If “Soft Kissing Hour” is any indication, Nat & Alex Wolff are entering a chapter defined not by flash, but by feeling. And in today’s sonic landscape, where vulnerability is often filtered and sold, their raw honesty feels revolutionary.
So sit with it. Let the song breathe. Watch the sky move. This isn’t just a single. It’s a moment. And moments like this don’t come around often.
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