Heavy Jelly is the fourth album by English punk rock duo Soft Play, released on 19 July 2024 through BMG Rights Management.
"[2] DIY's Lisa Wright called it "eleven tracks that condense everything brilliant about [Soft Play] in a manner that feels truly confident in its own idiosyncratic skin", with songs like "a snarling shout from the middle of mental health issues ('Isaac Is Typing...')" that sit "alongside a ridiculous ode to action hero 'John Wick' and a moving tribute to Isaac's recently-passed friend Bailey ('Everything and Nothing') in a way that somehow makes complete sense".
[3] Rachel Aroesti of The Guardian characterised Heavy Jelly as "an album full of very harsh, relatively atonal punk-metal – a mode that can get monotonous.
Still, the highlights of Heavy Jelly are enormous; despite the despair, Soft Play's future has never looked brighter".
Heavy Jelly could be the ravishing debut from some doe-eyed newcomers with the visceral energy they're touting this time around, except therein lies a hardened exterior.