"A window cracks open / Gust from outside / It’s the door which I closed / always wondered why..."
Maybe it's the opening mandolin-esque instrumentation or maybe it is the rattled cadence, the bohemian folk foundation, the droning sounds like gothic ghosts, the fuzzy guitars that feel like they are imploding instead of erupting and a vocal countenance that feels self aware, maybe possessed even (by artistic demons) but "The Flood" by Zilched, the moniker of Detroit's grunge-pop singer/songwriter Chloe Drallos, feels like it blossoms from another time. The dazzling track is (as the author notes) "set against an 80s-inspired Jangle Pop riff à la Cleaners From Venus and The Cure" and you can feel that kind of pyschedelia. I also thought of The Modern Art (circa 1982) and, in some respect, Mazzy Star and Slowdive, not directly but around the edges, as sunlight shining through tree branches.
The accompanying Official Video is wonderfully, synergistically perfect for the song. From press notes:
[Inspired by the Gothic poetry of Edgar Allan Poe and Surrealist literature of Arthur Rimbaud, The Flood is a lyrical reflection on self-haunting and misplaced blame. Zilched's melodic approach to songwriting expertly mediates the tortured aspects of human experience with the utmost tenderness. “I wrote most of the song at Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit around the time it had been flooding in the city,” Drallos reveals. “Everything felt biblical and significant during that time, which informed the tone of nearly every song on the record.”]
"The Flood" is my first glimpse of Zilched's sophomore album "Earthly Delights", out August 11 via Young Heavy Souls. [The project is a dazzling display of poetic lyricism, made up of gothic pop slanted alt-rock twinged with elements of grunge that acts as a love letter to life and its innermost complexities]
I have a feeling the "Earthly Delights" will be more than just an album but an experience.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMxqvuFrsq51furQRRR8UIw
https://zilchedmusic.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/zilchedmusic/
https://zilchedmusic.com/
Chloe Drallos has been making music as Zilched since the summer of 2017 and, at only 23, has been established as a scion of the underground.
In 2020, she released her debut album DOOMPOP on Detroit label Young Heavy Souls. The album solidified her conspicuously eclectic, genre-transcendent pop and exposed Drallos’ sound to a national audience.
Zilched is now releasing Earthly Delights, her highly-anticipated sophomore album, which showcases her unparalleled alt-rock authenticity and stadium-sized pop sensibilities. At its heart, Drallos' music is an explosive, ethereal Lynchian dream sequence that embodies the notorious ethos of its hometown, Detroit.
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