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ZERRIN ‘Talking to myself ‘ (EP Review)

SNACK reviewed ‘Maintenance Phase’, the lead single that opens this EP, in April – a languid swarm of someone sinking inwards. ‘It’s not as though I meant to lose myself/inside myself,’ she sings, justifying the sink of introspection. The EP builds on those themes. ‘Spring Cleaning’ is a shopping list of the quotidian, the daily grind of what it takes to just get out the door: the emails and laundry loads like a boulder up a hill, rebuilding strength into the floaty phantasmagoria of ‘Cloud Baby’.


Spring Cleaning ~ single (video)

The depth of texture sets this apart from the standard singer-songwriter fare. Flute trills that dig at a nostalgic thread; a crunchy little arpeggio in the background; vocals cut and layered into a choral ascent; beautiful melodic bass lines throughout.

I’m not sure if ‘It’s Happening Again’ is an intentional Twin Peaks reference but this wouldn’t be out of place floating above some of Lynch’s dreamier moments – that brief burst of angelic light pulled back to the weighted blanket of smoky comfort.


Talking to myself is out now. Available to buy/stream here.

Main Photo Credit: Laura Prieto

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