Soft Loft – Dorm

You ever walk through that heavy, cassette-hissy rain and love it—because in that moment you’re smitten with life? It isn’t perfect—because it never is—but suddenly you start to notice and appreciate all the beautiful things it has to offer. Clothes grow heavier by the second, hair plastered across your face, sneakers so waterlogged you could drop goldfish in them—yet you wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.

“Dorm”, the latest single from the indie-something-something collective Soft Loft, led by Jorina Stamm, bottles that exact feeling: drenched, unvarnished, euphorically alive.

The song builds from a light guitar drizzle—you’re already getting wet, you just don’t know it—into a full downpour, until the sound clings to your skin and you’re singing along: I see forests, I see mountains, I see birds seeking shelter.

As Stamm explains: “‘Dorm’ is about pulling through—it’s about stepping outside, even when it’s tough, and looking up to appreciate the beauty all around us. We wrote it in a rush in our little getaway in Ticino while it rained outside; when we finished, the sun came out. We’ve been playing it live for a while now, and it has some kind of magic about it—it’s a favorite for all of us.”

Soft Loft is a Switzerland-based collective fronted by singer/lyricist Jorina Stamm. They’re an insider’s tip, at home in the scene, but you also wouldn’t be surprised if one day they opened for Taylor Swift. They create music that cracks your shell wide open, reframes the broken and ugly, and makes you fall head over heels in love with being fallible and human. From day one, their mission has been to create a space where vulnerability is like oxygen and connecting with another is summer breeze. Their sound is a sticky mixture of ecstasy and melancholy, which they refer to as “Indie-something-something”. They feel at home playing in the shoebox-type club piled with a sweaty, screaming bunch, just as they do on big stages before a thrashing ocean of people.

In just over a year, they self-released an EP titled In Case You Still Get Lonely, followed by a full-length album called The Party And The Mess, both produced by Grammy-nominated producer Gianluca Buccellati (Lana Del Rey, Arlo Parks). Without any promotional efforts, a couple of songs landed on rotation on Seattle’s KEXP, and the album hit the North American College Radio Charts (NACC 200), where it remained for a total of six weeks. In the UK, Amy Lamé of BBC 6 gave it a push, as did Berlin’s FluxFM, and in no time, the band started headlining shows and playing top-tier festivals. To date, they’ve rocked shows in London, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Manchester, Hamburg, and Zurich. In spring of 2025 the band signed with [PIAS] and released their first self-produced EP titled Modern Roses. Jorina Stamm describes this batch of songs as “pure Soft Loft, still about what it’s like to be human, except that we go even deeper. We know each other more, and we’re closer, and we’ve played all these shows together, so it’s easier to say what we want to say.”

With the single “Dorm”, they release a track that their most devoted fans are already singing along to in full at their shows.

“Each of the individuals in Soft Loft is an artist in their own right, so when they come together as a band they’re able to create truly magnificent ideas. I was so grateful to be a part of their first album and when they played me their EP Modern Roses I was stunned. Taking matters into their own hands only made it more possible for them to get to the true essence of who they are as a group. It’s unfiltered and poignant.” – Gianluca Buccellati

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