Zone on Nine by BONZIE published on 2016-10-25T01:05:47Z Zone on Nine by BONZIE ffm.to/bonziezone "The second album from Chicago-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist BONZIE, Zone on Nine pulls off the sublime feat of feeling both intensely intimate and otherworldly in scope. Produced by BONZIE, in collaboration with Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Conor Oberst) and Ali Chant (Perfume Genius, Youth Lagoon), the album is kaleidoscopic in texture and spiked with startling intensity. Zone on Nine opens with the jagged guitar riffs and measured fury of “Crescent.” That intensity sustains for the dusky urgency of songs like “Combback,” and for the synth-laced title track’s anthemic determination (“Maybe you’re a horse head hanging on a harlot wall/You’re not gonna frame me/You’re not gonna take me down”). Featuring musical contributions from Adrian Utley of Portishead, Zone on Nine is also instilled with moments of ethereal serenity: the spectral haze of “If I Could Reach You,” the sleepy waltz of “Tiny,” the cascading piano lines and lilting strings of “Nettling.” And on its penultimate track “Mica Mori,” Zone on Nine unfolds into a seven-minute-long epic shot through with soulful vocal work, swirling guitar tones, and lyrics that attest to the easy magic of bending reality (“I make it summertime in my eyes”). “All of my songs basically start as a conversation I’m having with myself alone in my room,” says 21-year-old Nina Ferraro, who’s created under the moniker of BONZIE since age 17. “It’s how I process and interpret things that have happened to me or in life in general; it’s my way of trying to understand the world.”" Genre BONZIE Contains tracks Crescent by BONZIE published on 2016-03-14T18:30:48Z If I Could Reach You by BONZIE published on 2016-03-14T18:30:46Z Combback by BONZIE published on 2016-03-14T18:30:45Z Everybody Wants To by BONZIE published on 2016-03-17T15:30:44Z Band of Brothers by BONZIE published on 2016-03-17T15:30:19Z
