Setting the tone with pulsing guitar, morphing into a rhythmic rock’n’roll energy, Pennan Brae opens his new song Zulu with the conceptual lyrics, “Slow eye caught you walking, fast one watched you talking, card will soon be clocking, ship just won’t be docking…”
Pennan Brae’s delivery is breathy and seductive, vibrating in cohesive synchronicity with the psychedelic 80s-hybrid garage rock-esque production. The guitar solo is dimensional and winds us down cinematically, before picking up for a solo reprise and playfully ending the song. Pennan Brae has an intuitive and emotive sensibility with his vocals and instrumentation.
Some of our lyrical highlight include the introspective “oh I lose my head & I don’t know what to do, quickly spin around, but I just don’t have a clue”, the expansive “wining so disdaining, moon it is a waning, gravity is straining”, the poetic “ominous gigantic, fully sycophantic”. We love the descriptors and the universe that Pennan Brae creates with his lyricism.
Zulu is the first track on Pennan Brae‘s 11th album ‘Picked’, set for release in the Spring of 2022.
We have been immersing ourselves in the existing discography of Pennan Brae who is based in Vancouver, including Mona, Night Crawling and Incognito, and Zulu is featured on our New Music Spotlight playlist.
The official lyric music video for the song is directed by Tim Cash of Far From Earth Films.