The Fat Angel Sings

Zella Day’s breakout has been years in the making, with periodic highlights along the way. In 2012, Day’s acoustic cover of The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” rose to the top of Hype Machine’s chart. That feat was repeated more recently with her own composition, “Sweet Ophelia,” a sun-flared pop track that begins with a blown-out beat and builds to a soaring, synth-boosted chorus. Similarly lush hooks surface throughout her four-track EP. She’s been mistakenly labeled Day as an electro-pop artist, but her folk and rock leanings are more evident in her live performances. All of her songs originate on guitar and that even her most produced and polished tracks can be performed acoustically. You might even catch her cover of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues