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Zombie Americana
By Albert Schwartz which didn’t take much effort as it was all Zombie Americans have just released laid out in the lyrics for us.” their self-titled debut album Zombie Americana. Their debut album has been written in Topics on the new album range from the form of a rock opera about a country on people being consumed with their cell the precipice of a “social collapse”. The phones, to being completely absolved from album was a collaborative effort by the duo thought and relying on the current celebrity of Bryce Fox and Ross Ryan. Ross Ryan spokesman and the almighty media headlines produced, recorded and engineered the 10- to give them guidance. The album is song epic. about a society in disarray and the total collapse of a modern day America The two of them started the project as where its citizens are totally turning into an EP back in the summer of 2018. Gradu- media zombies. However, the duo of ally the project grew into a full-blown album. singer/songwriter Bryce Fox [Nashville, It was just us two in a room, alone, just TN] and songwriter/producer Ross Ryan thinking with our hearts and our feelings (AKA Stayloose) [Denver, CO] are in rather than with our heads on what’s going to hopes that their messages resonates with fit or what’s going to make sense for both our their fans and gives them hope of a projects”. What resulted was a cornucopia of better future. Hopefully they will find influences, from 90s boom-bap hip-hop to salvation and solace in this media punk-rock riffs and piano ballad moments. controlled generation. Almost as if the two were channeling a future yet to come, they let the album of material marinate on their hard drives for over a year before seeking a means of release. “Upon ZOMBIE AMERICANA TRACKLISTING listening to the work again almost a year later, it just made so much sense to us, so we 01. Not Human coined a name and came up with an aesthetic, 02. Zombies 78 Rock and Blues International • December 2020 03. Bad Trip 04. Save Me 05. Crybabies 06. Propagate 07. Too Close 08. Bullets 09. Garden 10. Better Off Dead
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