Positively enigmatic is a description well-suited to London “synth-gaze” duo, Zetra. The band’s two members, Adam (guitar/vocals) and Jordan (synthesizers/vocals), shucked off the oppression of their history together in previously failing bands to round up a mixed bag of influences like My Bloody Valentine, Mortiis, Gary Numan, Lush, Torche and Type O Negative and reconstitute them in a shimmery wall of shooting star hyper-melody via a dusty array of vintage instrumentation and recording devices. This speaks nothing to how their self-titled debut EP, which is actually more LP in length, is a concept record based on the tragic legacy of 1960s cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, the Russian test pilot who has the distinction of being the first human to perish in space. Both of Zetra’s principle memb...
