Album Review: Klein Zage - ‘Feed The Dog’

Klein Zage – ‘Feed The Dog’ 
Oct 28th (Rhythm Section)
Synth-induced catatonia

As war rages and the pound flatlines, there has never been a more important time to find beauty in the mundane. Luckily, Klein Zage is a master at it. On ‘Feed The Dog’, her second long-length outing, a woozy cocktail of alt-pop, trip-hop and shoegaze balances existential longing with pop sensibility to create a deeply meditative album that elevates the every day into the celestial. Field recordings of the rushing Hood Canal fjord swell over distant, deconstructed guitar chords on opener, ‘Sand’ while Zage’s quivering vocal ponders life’s purpose in a state akin to an out-of-body experience on the left-field ‘Prince’. Stepping up and away from previous work but with her wicked wit prevailing, the project closes with perhaps the first heartfelt ode to the borough of Lewisham and a promise that there is nothing Zage can’t make sound dreamy. OLIVIA STOCK