To celebrate the one-year anniversary of their studio album Big Blue, Canadian alternative rockers Dead Soft have unveiled the Baby Blue EP today.

The EP finds the band reworking a handful of songs from Big Blue. Singer Nathaniel Epp had this to say about the surprise release:

“Baby Blue started as the recording equivalent of a doodle back in the winter when we had some down time after the first Big Blue tour. I had decided that I wanted to start self recording again and started messing around with microphones, getting sounds and tracking this and that. After a while we could start to see this potential alternate version EP forming but we didn’t make it a priority because we had a lot going on at that point - and then covid hit! Like everyone else, we ended up cancelling tons of shows and began trying to form an idea of what being in a band will look like for the foreseeable future.

One thing was certain, we had a hell of a lot more time on our hands so we leaned a little harder into Baby Blue for some much needed solace during the gnarliest stretch of lockdown and ended up really getting a kick out of how it was coming together. What could be a more perfect time to share them with the world than on the first anniversary of Big Blue! The timing was right.”

The Baby Blue EP, which can be heard and purchased below, will be available on streaming services this Friday (October 23).