Zombie-Chang artfully chronicles the Covid crisis on her new album
Zombie-Chang’s latest album ‘Take me Away From Tokyo’ (wanna trade?) begins with a short track, ‘Stay Home‘, in which she robottically chants “where’s my toilet paper”. I think that characterises the dry-eyed sarcasm of the rest of the album and in fact of Zombie-Chang’s entire oeuvre. “Adrenalised dissonance” is what this reviewer calls it.
Zombie-Chang “superimposes her bubbly persona over a dehumanised wasteland to bring us a warped portrait of solitude that makes for perhaps the most acerbic and uncomfortably infectious pop record of the year.”
The entire review is long and wordy and pretty hard to read, but I think that one line pretty much sums it up. Take me Away From Tokyo perfectly translates the nervous restlessness of having to stay in isolation while at the same time you’re urged to make yourself useful, by your boss, your government, the media and the nervous doom-scrollers on Twitter. Frantic beats, jittery tunes and Zombie-Chang’s nervous chanting make for an artful chronicle of the Covid crisis. (PB)
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