Zooni Slip Into the Darkness With Their New Video For “Cascara”
Brighton-based art-pop group Zooni are releasing their new EP Familiar Ground on October 2nd and have shared their mesmerizing lead single “Cascara” and its monochromatic music video.
Heavily situated in the sonic shadows of Radiohead, “Cascara” blends melancholic lyrics with thickly layered textures and musical detailing to form a powerful and engaging piece. Inspired by his time living alone, lead singer Peter Martin channeled a fragment of an existential crisis surrounding happiness on the new song. He explains, “Cascara is a bit of a downer to be honest. Its about feeling overworked and powerless to change anything. Living alone I realized I would come up with all sorts of wacky theories for happiness that bore no relation to reality and the song kind of makes fun of that“.
Alongside Radiohead, bands like Alt-J, Grizzly Bear and Plants & Animals come to mind as dense synthesizers build a foundation for interspersed details from ringing piano chords and dazzling guitar arrangements. Its ethereal and hazy finish helps combine with the song’s theme of getting lost in thought. The black and white animated music video provides the single a despairing backdrop as a silhouette of a man slowly slips into the darkness.
Fall in behind him here:
