Malena Zavala Preps Melt EP
Been a couple of years since we’ve heard from Malena Zavala, and the gentleness of her latest single seems the perfect way to officially open up the listening experience of the week. The ornate nature of the meandering guitar notes creates this vastness that perhaps seems empty if it weren’t for the vocals. But, the vocals are there, often as ambient notes floating to fill the aforementioned space, at other times they embrace this lightness that borders on playfulness, cresting and falling atop of the guitar strums; Zavala can also retreat with her voice, pulling back and creating this intimacy where it feels as if the music only exists between she and the listener. This is the title track from the forthcoming Melt EP.
Felt like a pretty busy week all in all; there were lots of big album news leaking out, and we tried to cover the ones we love, like new Living Hour and Telephone Numbers…and I had to squeeze in that new Blood Orange. Tons of new stuff has been coming out of Austin too, like new stuff from Dress Warm, Living Pins, Chronophage and Ingebrigt Haker Flatten (do we still get to claim San Gabriel?). Winter and TAGABOW continued with their run of solid singles, as did Wombo, so there’s a whole lot of stuff for you to sound your way through below. Bummed that new Bats tune I posted isn’t up on the DSPs.
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