Album Reviews
ZEPHR’s ‘Past Lives’ hit shelves on January 17, the band’s second LP from Snappy Little Numbers / Dumb Ghost Records. The record is around 37 minutes, divided into 10 tracks. Without coming down too hard, the record’s a bit of a rollercoaster.
There are a couple of standout 10/10 tracks on the album: “Bitter,” “Past Lives,” and “My Memorial Day” are all just transcendent work. They’re poignant, anthemic, enjoyable, and moving. And then there’s the other seven songs on the record. Some are fine, others are downright forgettable.
The core theme of the album is loss and recovering from it, an obviously worthy subject for a punk record. And the core takeaway is this: the three great songs are much, MUCH better than the other seven are bland or bad. Those three songs make the record fully worth listening to.
Past Lives tracklist:
- Rome
- Bitter
- Cannery Row
- Cry To The Dawn
- Past Lives
- HiLoKC
- My Depression
- Another Year
- My Memorial Day
- Perfume Memory
Once described as "a gas station philosopher trapped in a pop punk drummer's body," Lee enjoys thinking and writing about music outside of his creative and intellectual grasp!
