Today, the Brooklyn-based band Le Big Zero are thrilled to share their new single “Coda” and it’s accompanying video. The song acts as the third single from their upcoming album, A Proper Mess, set for release on April 8, 2022 via Know Hope Records out of Philadelphia. Pre-order a physical copy or pre-save the album on your preferred streaming service HERE. “Coda” follows on the heels of the album’s singles “Horror Movie Pie Fight”and “Beach Séance”.
Following their critically-lauded debut album, 2019’s Ollie Oxen Free, the new LP is a high-energy cocktail of garage rock and off-kilter punk. Vocalists Michael Pasuit and Carolina Aguilar continue their wry exploration of monotony and anxiety in the modern age, via a Frank Black-Kim Deal-esque sonic intertwining. The album is a reflective, messy love-letter to uncertainty and the choice to just press onward.
“Coda” itself is a reincarnation of an older song’s skeleton. The song was pieced together from a discarded track by Michael Pasuit’s previous band X-Ray Press. Lyrically, the song is about the band breaking-up a la famous blow-ups like Fleetwood Mac, the Clash, or Oasis.
Speakingon the origins of the song, Pasuit writes: “It was a song that we wrote earlier in our existence as a band, but never found a home on an album or even in a live set. Yet it always had such potential. Through the Le BIg Zero lens, we changed the meter from 7/8 to 4/4 at the start of the song so the vocal harmonies could take a more commanding presence. The punkier middle section was written specifically for Le Big Zero as to ground it in the type of rock we do (as opposed to XRP’s aggressive, super-weird math rock approach). We’d like to lay claim to that ending guitar riff, but it was written by X-Ray Press’ guitarist Paurl Walsh, currently a producer and sound engineer in Seattle.”
While speaking about the creative process behind the music video, director Jeanette D Moses writes: “With “Coda” we were looking to create a live band concept that didn’t take place in a traditional venue and had a bit of a playful vibe. The creative process for the video was pretty collaborative with Michael and I sharing ideas back and forth before landing on the final concept of Le Big Zero playing their hearts out for an underwhelmed kid. Ultimately we were looking for a way to showcase all the members of the band and their live energy, while also poking fun at the way an audience sometimes seems completely apathetic to the cool thing happening in front of them.”
