“We went to Billy Corgan’s place in Chicago. He said, ‘When you think you’ve got a chorus, just write another one’”: Bones UK’s Carmen Vandenberg on going hard to make Soft – and the Jeff Beck pedal that won’t leave her ’board

Carmen Vandenberg leans against a white wall with a black Telecaster.

The fuzz pedal was the first guitar effect ever invented, so it’s kind of mind-bending that Bones UK’s second album Soft uses fuzz pedals to generate tones unlike anything we’ve ever heard.

These tones are the result of painstaking collaboration between guitarist Carmen Vandenberg and producer Filippo Cimatti, and they make Soft an incredibly fresh listen.