Music News - New Zen Mantra Video & Album Out Now
22 April 2016 - 0 Comments
"...twangier,
psychedelic version of something you’d hear from The Cure." - NYLON
"..elicits an eerie
nostalgia and the inescapable tinge of vague melancholy..."
- GORILLA VS. BEAR
"...there’s an urgency to what’s being
said, and with vocal lines as ethereal as these it’s hard not to hang onto
every word..." - IMPOSE
The self-titled second album from New Zealand's Zen Mantra (Sam Perry) has been released on Flying Nun Records and to celebrate Zen Mantra has also shared the psych-inspired visual for lead-single, Second Skin.
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Perry, who is also a member of Yumi Zouma, wrote and recorded much of it by himself in various planes, trains, homes and hotel rooms around the world whilst on tour with them. Following his 2013 debut How Many Padmes Hum, the 10-track album sees the 21-year old expanding his focus to incorporate all forms of pop music from ethereal shoegaze to walls of psychedelic distortion.
With much of the album’s inspiration coming from the German
1960s/70s underground and the UK psych scene circa 1980 (fun fact: the
name Zen Mantra was taken from some of Sonic Boom's liner notes), Zen Mantra has a pure pop
energy, an expansive sound and plenty of hooks.
Perry continues: “When
I started out making music I wanted everything to sound huge. My ideal sound
was ambient, polished, compressed, driving and loaded with hooks. Some kind of
blissful, stadium sized psych-pop project. In the end I wanted to make
something that felt like a pop record, but with an underlying sense of
dissonance. Something that for most part is quite energetic and rhythm
heavy, but without forgoing any atmospheric qualities.”
Yet it’s not all warm and blissful, with the album’s darker, emotional themes at times brilliantly warping these ‘pop’ songs. Leaving the listener with the slight sense of unease, like a sombre psych pop record you found lying melted out under the sun.
Zen Mantra is out
now on Flying Nun Records.
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