The “Queen of Lo-Fi” Azalia Snail returns with her fifteenth album titled POWERLOVER (released April 5 via Cloud Recordings). The featured single from the album “Zap You of That Hate” includes contributions from Alan Sparhawk of Low and an entrancing music video that looks like something that one might more expect to see from an old website from the 90s except with much better image quality. Maybe it’s Omnichord melodies forward, minimal percussion and an evolving backdrop of drones and other synths that reset your mind from the present and into the more colorful and analog aesthetic of the music video with images of nature enhanced by collage art animation and flashing lights. Like the song and the visuals together are aiming to hypnotize you into a better and more benevolent state of mind with the artist speaking the title of the song in the end to punctuate what has been a wonderful sonic journey beyond the highly produced music of the modern era by demonstrating how something that embodies being accepted on its own terms can be a way of life that can grow as much as systematized conformity. Watch the video for “Zap You of That Hate” on YouTube and follow the pioneering lo-fi, experimental pop artist Azalia Snail at the links provided.
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