![]() Love, for Lei, means a couple of things - like expressing his creativity surrounded by friends and music collaborators, and cultivating a community of people who share a common vision of celebrating a world that often doesn't want them in it. I mean, yeah, there's a lot of that, but they expect that I'm kind of tired of being expected to express that when I want to express love." "It's not going to be exactly what you think of it, because it's not all just about anger and aggression. "I wanted it to be where, yes, there's going to be some angry-sounding music, but listen close to what's being said and it's not going to be what you think it is," he explains, taking a break from the band's sound check while on an East Coast tour leg with Show Me the Body, Jesus Piece, Scowl and Trippjones. Besides, that is not the aesthetic that the Los Angeles band had in mind on its debut full-length album, A New Tomorrow, out March 3. ![]() love?Īccording to Anaiah Lei, the founder, vocalist and songwriter for Zulu, the correlation between extreme music and expressions of anger about the current climate is too predictable. Who would have thought that Curtis Mayfield pairs nicely with powerviolence? One of the great things about the savage and meaty riffs, disembodied screams and pummeling bass emblematic of this subgenre of hardcore is that, in these dark and turbulent times, the music matches the sound of social protest, political activism and. "It's not all just about anger and aggression," Zulu's Anaiah Lei (far left) says, "I'm kind of tired of being expected to express that when I want to express love."
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