{"id":6461,"date":"2026-02-26T15:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=6461"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:56:55","slug":"ive-lost-sarah-soft-and-water-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/ive-lost-sarah-soft-and-water-7\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Lost Sarah – Soft and Water 7”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next up, here’s one I’ve been meaning to post for a few years now – much more of a UK post-punk\/alternative sound, from 1990, when things were a little more guitar-heavy overall. This is the band’s only single, a one-two punch of gloomy, guitar-driven, yet anthemic tracks that hit similar moods as Midnight Oil, late-IRS R.E.M., Gene Loves Jezebel, The Cult, and maybe some Violent Femmes\/early Janes Addiction vibes (plus more obscure guitar-driven bands Black September or Into a Circle).<\/p>\n

The band was from Bath, England, and also feature on a 2014 compilation of bands from the local scene.<\/p>\n

The driving b-side here is my preferred track of the two, but both tracks should hit the spot for fans of the 1986-1991 alternative boom, a little dark and edgy… Hope y’all enjoy!<\/p>\n

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I’ve Lost Sarah –\u00a0Soft and Water<\/em> (aka Fish Can’t Swim) 7”
\n1. Soft and Water
\n2. All Souls Day<\/p>\n

*download it here<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next up, here’s one I’ve been meaning to post for a few years now – much more of a UK post-punk\/alternative sound, from 1990, when things were a little more guitar-heavy overall. This is the band’s only single, a one-two punch of gloomy, guitar-driven, yet anthemic tracks that hit similar moods as Midnight Oil, late-IRS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,34,650,1011,19,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-1990s","category-alternative","category-ive-lost-sarah","category-post-punk","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6461"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6483,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}