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Title - How Do I Get That Star
Artist - Zannie

How Do I Get That Star is Zannie Owens’ debut record under their own name, as well as the first release with Kill Rock Stars.

Previously, they performed as Potted Plant and they co-helmed the band Really Big Pinecone alongside Michael Buishas (0 Stars, .michael).

This latest effort is self-produced, and features contributions from friends in New York, as well as zannie’s brother Sam, who plays bass and also mixed the record.

Made over the course of four years, the record deals with feelings of pining for the unknown, the mystical, and the mundane. To paraphrase zannie, the record was produced mitotically from their mind.

The resulting 11 songs (picked precisely because of the number’s magical, symmetrical qualities), are warm to the touch. To listen to How Do I Get That Star is to immerse oneself in a sound bath or look up at the stars on a summer night in the middle of nowhere.

1. Mechanical Bull
2. A Rose for Every Puppet
3. Get That Star
4. Lovers
5. For a While
6. Forest Flesh
7. Poison Plant
8. Song of Rose Pain
9. Route 32
10. Holy Ghosted
11. Doppler

This heartfelt, and sweetly organic new album opens on the gentle Summer’s eve breeze of Mechanical Bull and the veritably shimmering synth pop, mid-tempo, arpeggiated keys and drum machine balladry of A Rose for Every Puppet (which explores the range and power of love, not just in the big feeling romantic kind, but also in a more platonic sense), and then comes the gentle, melodic psych-pop of Get That Star, the sultry, breathy, less-than-a-minute Lovers, and then comes the drum-led, pop bounce of For a While.

The atmospherically-charged, drum-led, psych guitars within Forest Flesh are up next and they are seamlessly followed by the aching, informative yearn within Poison Plant, the synth-psych twirl of Song of Rose Pain, the acoustic guitar work of the beautiful Route 32, the album rounding out on the psychedelic synesthesia of Holy Ghosted, coming to a close on the euphorically-imbued, science ballad Doppler.

Brooklyn’s Zannie Owens conceived of their debut solo record, How Do I Get That Star, as an homage to Voyager One Golden Record, the album that Carl Sagan and Lynn Margulis sent into space in 1977. “I was following this narrative idea about an alien on Earth trying to find their way back to their home planet,” says zannie. The idea also comes from one of their favorite poets, Jack Spicer, “He had this whole thing about artists being radio transmitters for Martians or ghosts.”

“I wrote Mechanical Bull after waking up from a particularly vivid dream involving the fusion of various bull mythos: namely the bull of heaven, the Minotaur of Minos, and the modern mechanical bull,”

Zannie Explains.

“The dream followed a dysfunctional family on vacation. At the end, the father became obsessed with a giant glowing mechanical bull in a maze beneath a deserted house the family entered to call for help. The twins went down to the basement to look for their father, and happened upon an underwater mirror room where they converged into one entity.”

“The father spent the rest of his days following the mechanical bull through the maze. Here the bull is both the solution and problem...the mechanical bull represents a system of our own creation we’re forced to hop back on again and again.”

“Yet that mystic bull can also represent the comfort one can access feeling the weight of their body on the earth, and not needing to be perceived to exist. Quite simply it’s tough out here, give yourself a hug!”

How Do I Get That Star, is a sort of Spicer-esque exercise in spooky, spectral auto-dictation that has its roots in the outer limits of our galaxy. Made over the course of four years, the record deals with feelings of pining for the unknown, the mystical, and the mundane. To paraphrase zannie, the record was produced mitotically from their mind.

Official Purchase Link

www.KillRockStars.com

Zannie @ Spotify

Zannie @ Instagram





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