In a wash of harrowing synths and deadpanned snares, Contour's 'Softer' sets out to pierce through the subterfuge of language and appearance. Sami Seal begins this succinct fifteen-minute sojourn explicating the fatal cost required in any true form of love. What follows is a longing for genuine human contact, which breaches through the superficial record-skip of rote, "I love you's" and other shallow attempts to placate a yearning soul.