New brakes, soft pedal, distribution blocks ?

inertia said
Yep, that's the one,
You won't get a hard pedal till you adjust the emergency brake.
Thanx Craig.

Try bleeding with the emergency adjusted AND applied.
Cheers

Well ****, you might be on to something there! My ebrake isn't hooked up, so that hadn't even crossed my mind. I'll have to give it a go.