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<\/a><\/p>\nThe ZIBRA boys are back! Fresh from honing their craft on tour with Years & Years and Coasts, the newly composed trio have been spending time holed up in the studio and penning tracks from the brand new EP ‘EP2000’.<\/p>\n
Sam (vocals), Russ (synths) and Ben (bass), return with a triumphant new sound and an infectious new lead-track ‘Great White Shark’, ahead of finishing up their debut album, which is expected early next year.<\/p>\n
Give us an insight into your journey? Weren\u2019t there 4 of you guys before?<\/b><\/p>\n
It’s been a great year, writing and playing shows. There were 4 of us, but sadly due to a couple of differences there is now 3 but we’re all still friends though! When it started out I (Sam) was just writing songs and trying to find people who wanted to do the same kind of stuff, it wasn\u2019t that easy because not everyone was initially digging the certain balance of guitars and synth and stuff. But before we played live it was all about writing and jamming ideas but then the shock came of trying to do what we recorded live! That was a whole can of worms we didn\u2019t want to open. I look back and kinda wish we just mimed and did some dances like B*witched.<\/p>\n
How did you all form? Were there any previous projects before ZIBRA, and where did the name originate from?<\/b><\/p>\n
We\u2019ve all been in and out of bands in the past but Zibra started about 18 months ago when I uploaded a couple of tracks on the internet which people were really enjoying. I then met Russ (synths) through people hearing the first couple of songs and started working together from then, and it escalated quite naturally from there! The name\u00a0just sounds funny, well not funny in a funny way just odd. We’re English, and Americans say ZEEBRA, but I guess to get that across we spelt it like we did.<\/b><\/p>\n
We\u2019re loving ‘Great White Shark’. How does the creative process begin with you guys? How does a track go from being an idea to a finished piece of music that you’re all happy to put out to your fans?<\/b><\/p>\n
They all happen differently, some ideas come out on the tube and you have to run home before you forget and some just start from a little mess around. ‘Great White Shark’ started with Russ showing us a project session that was just a drum beat and his finger pushed down on the E button, it was pretty funny, but it started there, I got out the guitar and frazzled it up and pitched it down, fired up the synthesizers and we had a track!<\/p>\n
Can you tell us more about the EP2000? How does it differ and follow-on from your previous EP?<\/b><\/p>\n
The new ‘EP2000’ was a bit more of a serious downtempo kind of vibe, so tracks like ‘Eclipse’ and ‘Vibrance’ fitted nicely, and the high cut-up vocals are taking more of a centre stage. <\/b>We’re working on the album at the moment.<\/p>\n