NEWS 2020/12/13
There’s something a little dark and eerie about Nadja Zela’s new record, but it’s not as if it’s unintentional. The songwriter and guitarist has just released her new live music video for “Brickman,” off of the upcoming double album, Greetings To Andromeda. The track has an ambient, downtempo, experimental vibe about it, a recurring theme throughout Greetings To Andromeda’s eighteen tracks, an approach to songwriting which the band refers to as brute folk. Musically, the songs veer widely into experimental territory, combining analog sounds, choir parts, and stereophony, and mixing it with dark gadgetry like small synth sounds and Moog sub-bass attacks. Lyrically, Zela sings of space, ghosts, and animals living in amorphous scenery that leads to an unknown world. This is a record that thri...