![]() It combines a retro, 70s space-race inspired energy with a modern tale of anxiety. The world’s gonna end and everyone is going to forget you. Opening track, You Better Believe!!! comes in hot, aggressive and excitable. ![]() It’s a very British trait to focus on age, but it simply has no right to be conceived by a twenty one year-old who was younger still in its writing. Zeros is a curious, unique and bold record that is teeming with fresh ideas and nods back to eras that have no right to head up the charts in the year 2020. The boy most likely to had very quickly become the young man to beat.īut for all the chart noise and colourful media presence, it’s the music that does the lionshare of the talking. ![]() Whilst Declan might have lost that particular battle by a whisker to Jagger and his cohorts on the very last day of sales, it showed just how far Declan had come since his arrival as a slight in stature, big ball of fizzing teenage energy only a few years earlier. It’s Coors Light and cowboy boots escaping a Silicon Valley dystopia. Zeros is playful, wonderfully strange and intensely musical, but there’s a dark shadow looming throughout. “Nashville is a great place to record because it’s filled with a lot of creative people and music heads trying to escape LA.” This idea of a refuge is fitting for Declan, who wanted to be away from the pressures of London or the drab consistency of home, allowing for an intimacy and a desire to explore on this super galactic album that can only really be pursued in a place that is unfamiliar. By September 2020, he was battling out for a number 1 record with The Rolling Stones. In late 2019, Declan Mckenna headed out to Nashville to record his second album, Zeros, with producer Jay Joyce. “Zeros is the sound of an artist pushing his creative development, and enjoying himself as he does so. “Declan is proving a rare talent to watch” – ★★★★ Daily Star “McKenna is to Bowie what Sam Fender is to Bruce Springsteen” – ★★★★ Evening Standard “electric, entertaining and thought-provoking” – ★★★★ NME “McKenna’s future looks intriguing…the work of an artist broadening his scope” – ★★★★ The Guardian “Star-spangled and confident AF… ‘Zeros’ is a lot of fun” – ★★★★ DIY Magazine “Spaced-out storytelling from an indie wunderkind…a delight” – ★★★★ Q Magazine “A brilliant second album from indie’s boy wonder” – ★★★★★ DORK “The wonder boy of British Music” – Attitude
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