"Spiral Your Way Out is a rapid-fire (half the tracks come in at under 3 minutes) journey of a love lost and a person beginning to rebuild. It’s not perfect, but if you allow yourself to be picked up by its swooping melodies and feel the sun on your skin, it’s somewhere close".
Zzzahara is American singer-songwriter Zahara Jaime; part Filipino, part Mexican, all California; or more specifically, Los Angeles. Waves of sun and grit spill out of this, their third album; a sound so uniquely Angeleno you can almost hear the traffic. Defiantly formed in the ashes of an ill-fated relationship, the emotion is thick and palpable. It’s a cliché to talk about sun-drenched guitar melodies, but the dreamy, beachy sound is undeniable. There are hints of Girls in there, of early Grimes, of Sky Ferreira's better produced moments.
