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ZOLA BLOOD – ” Silver Soul “

Posted: December 17, 2020 in MUSIC
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East London four piece Zola Blood bring forth a brooding and darkened offering full of haunting elements in their latest single ‘Silver Soul’, the second release from their highly anticipated EP ‘Two Hearts’ “

‘Silver Soul’ is about saying a last goodbye to a time or a place when you’ve outgrown it and you know it’s time to change. In terms of the writing process, ‘Silver Soul’ was kicking around for a couple of years before we figured out how to make it work. We tried a bunch of different versions and ideas, and it was coming up with that drum loop – that you hear at the beginning – that helped us weave it all together. Usually the music comes first for us, which in turn inspires melody and lyrics. For ‘Silver Soul’ it kind of happened the other way around – we just had some basic chords, lyrics and melody but the rest was pretty fluid. So it was fun to take a different approach.

Speaking about the track, they explain, “Silver Soul is about saying a last goodbye to a time or a place when you’ve outgrown it and you know it’s time to change.

East London based quartet, Zola Blood is undoubtedly one of our favourite electro-ambient projects to come out of the UK. The recent tour with RÜFÜS DU SOL has left a visible mark on the band – they appear more direct and powerful in their delivery. ‘Silver Soul’ is taken from their latest EP via Akira Records.

ZOLA BLOOD – ” Islands “

Posted: January 5, 2017 in MUSIC
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Hackney four-piece Zola Blood have a busy start to 2017 lined up, with the release of ‘Islands’, a cut from their upcoming debut album ‘Infinite Games’, as well as a January live date , lets Hope for more dates now the new year is here.
‘Islands’  is the follow-up to June’s “Heartbeat” continues the band’s trademark dark and brooding electronic pop, propelled by a repetitive arpeggio and staccato hand claps, before bringing in a huge synth line and soaring crescendo.

Duncan Toothill (George FitzGerald/Little Cub) provides some extra synth work and Boxed In’s Oli Bayston is on mixing duties. Explaining the idea behind the lyrics, singer Matt said, “A friend of mine was telling me about an evening she spent with her boyfriend of the time, getting rained on all night in a tent and said in passing that they felt like an island. That imagery just stuck in my head. The track is about drifting off with someone, forgetting who you are or where you’re supposed to be ”

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ZOLA BLOOD – ” Grace ” Acoustic Version

Posted: February 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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Zola Blood are the Hackney Wick based threesome that have left nothing to chance with their debut EP “Meridian”. Having been holed up in their studio for 12 months writing and developing their sound, this week they were finally ready to let the world listen. Already gaining critical acclaim from their release of debut track ‘Grace’, the band have gone from zero to hero since then.

With a sell-out debut show at East London’s Shacklewell Arms, backing from the likes of NME and The Fader, and an impressively large following all under their belts, we definitely had to know more. We caught up with them in the run up to their EP release to talk about how they got started, the importance of sound design, and being desperate to play live.

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ZOLA BLOOD – ” Meridian “

Posted: January 30, 2015 in MUSIC
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London’s indie-pop outfit Zola Blood  and their debut EP,  ahead of its release on Pond Life.

On top of showing off the fabulous calibre of “Meridian”, the four-piece were also kind enough to run through each track in detail.

“Grace”
“Grace started off with a really simple beat and the vocal line with a completely different chord progression. There were two parts that came late on and really changed the direction of the song; the lead synth line that bubbles and pushes the whole thing along and the lazy guitar drone in the chorus. They both gave it a really languid feel that seeped into the other parts and helped shape the whole thing. It’s about an argument with someone and is pretty hateful really, but there’s an apology at the end.”

“Leaves”
“This one was a bit awkward and changed a lot. The first demos had acoustic drums and lots of competing ideas, it didn’t really work. We were struggling a bit for inspiration until Ed made this turbulent arpeggio sound. We started messing with filters and effects on top and found it gave the whole track a new dynamic. We decided to scrap most of the drums and pretty much started from scratch with the synth as the driving rhythm. The title comes from a Sylvia Plath poem called Gold Mouths that’s about an old bronze statue who’s seen the leaves of a thousand Autumns.”

“Meridian”
“Meridian was the first song we wrote as Zola Blood. I’d had the lyrics for a while and we wrote most of the song on acoustic guitars, which is quite rare for us. We’d just moved into our studio and bought a Prophet 08 so had all these new sounds to play with. We changed the chords at the end at the very last minute and it lifted the song into a different place. It’s a bit more optimistic than the other songs. It’s about moving to London.”

“Eyes Open”
“This song is a kind of meditation around the arpeggiated synth line which rolls throughout and sits on top of a kind of bluesy atmosphere. We messed around with a lot ethereal sounds to create that feeling – like the pitch-shifted vocal echoing the guitar line, and the random textures that make up the drum track. Oh, and there’s a fuck off guitar solo.”

Now you know the context of each track, soak in the sumptuous sonics and banish those Monday woes with tip-top synth-based indie-pop with emotive refrains and Foals-style falsettos.