Neil Soiland Debuts The Soul Family Band EP

This month (November 2025), multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and arranger Neil Soiland released his debut EP Neil Soiland Presents: The Soul Family Band. On release day, Canadian outlet Tinnitist premiered the sweeping psych-soul track “Os Espirito Dentro (The Spirit Within),” describing it as “Woodstock vinyl melted down, inhaled like incense, then ridden like a magic carpet to the edge of the universe — if you dare.”

Recorded between London and Los Angeles, the EP feels like a threshold moment — something awakening, expanding, stepping into technicolor. Rooted in vintage tone but wired with modern electricity, it collides krautrock propulsion, garage-psych grit, Tropicalia atmosphere, jazz fluidity, and deep-soul devotion. For Soiland, the project is more than a band — it is a philosophy.

“The Soul Family Band isn’t just a group. It’s a way of thinking — for anyone who feels music in their bones.” — Neil Soiland

Burnt out and craving change, Soiland left Los Angeles for Europe — a two-week Spain trip unfolding into an unexpected creative pilgrimage to London. Through a chance chain of introductions, he landed at Sausage Studios in Hackney with engineer Sebastian Kellig, tracking six songs in two days. Soiland performed most instruments himself (drums, bass, guitar, Wurlitzer, vocals), with guitarist Fabio Mongelli adding blown-out fuzz while Kellig kept sessions locked and laser-focused.

Back in Los Angeles, Soiland expanded the vision, recruiting musicians who became the first incarnation of The Soul Family Band: Rocco Freedman (lead guitar), Joe Garcia (flute), Ark Sano (keys), Pablo Orué (percussion), Kyle O’Donnell (sax), and Carlos Rodriguez (harmonica), with engineer Marc Agostini finishing tracking and mixing. A revolving-door supergroup of studio players and beautiful weirdos, the band echoes The Wrecking Crew spirit — eclectic, rule-breaking, and dedicated to sound itself.

Track Highlights

• “When to Fall” — a swamp-stomp protest anthem; CCR smoke meets cosmic freak-out and modern anxiety.
• “Think It Twice” — a garage-psych rush, all fuzz and tension between impulse and restraint.
• “All the Things” — bubblegum psych-pop with venom under the sugar, playful on the surface and cutting underneath.
• “East Side of Town” — a smoky jazz-nocturne of barrooms, poets, misfits, and neon rain; the EP’s most cinematic moment.
• “Espirito Dentro” — a Latin-psychedelic meditation on connection and inner divinity; raw, hypnotic, and quietly transcendent.

Soiland’s sonic path — from L.A. psych-rock collective The Creation Factory, through the studio project Sacred Orange, to solo singles “Harlequin Tears” and “Ode to Innocence” — leads directly here. Each chapter had its own aesthetic, but this EP is something different: loose, alive, imperfect in all the right ways. It is not about refinement so much as release.

“This is where I’m going — progressive, eclectic, free.” — Neil Soiland

Watch “Os Espirito Dentro” on YouTube