Review: zzzahara's "Distant Lands" Explores Grief and Memory Through Distorted Guitars
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Linnie Greene
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A review of zzzahara's fourth solo record "Distant Lands," which explores themes of grief, addiction, and abandonment through distorted guitars and deadpan vocals. The album is described as sunny yet dysthymic, staring backwards at the past's foggy contours.
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PitchforkReview: zzzahara's "Distant Lands" Explores Grief and Memory Through Distorted Guitarspitchfork.comKey quotes
· 4 pulledTime comes for us all in ways both banal (your Warped Tour tee is worth $300 on Grailed) and cataclysmic (someone you love dies).
On Distant Lands, their fourth solo record, zzzahara, aka Los Angeles' Zahara Jaime, stares backwards at the past's foggy contours, whether it was last night's nightmare or the vicissitudes of childhood.
Through a slurry of distorted guitars and deadpan singing, the album brushes against grief, addiction, and abandonment through a layer of gauzy nonchalance.
Sunny like an overexposed photograph, dysthymic like the 'before' half of a Zoloft commercial, the record's ge
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