Taste Test: Stevie Zita tells the tale of ‘Anastasia’
The lo-fi pop storyteller fuses a troubled girlfriend’s history into a hazy, fuming mix.
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We lace up our boots and drag our feet through an existence marred with strained relationships and an assortment of other toils. We add the roots of our pains into a frothy and steaming cauldron, drinking the poison as we see fit. Yet instead of allowing the sour to contaminate his body, lo-fi pop singer-songwriter Stevie Zita breathes in the fumes that only make him lightheaded and catatonic. With “Anastasia,” bred from a troubled girlfriend and the splintered effects, he sinks into the scalding temperatures to process and cope before moving on. “Cocaine is one helluva drug,” he concedes in the opening stanza. His brazen pen is nearly as sharp as the production’s incisive swivel, combing the wondrously sublime mix of synths and drums, and his voice soon becomes simply an echo of the past.
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