Zinnia - Lupins
Meet Zinnia, who just moments ago released a delicious new track, entitled “Lupins.” A release party for “Lupins” will take place at The Baby G in Toronto, on February 7.
Zinnia | Photo: David Leyes
Lupins are herbaceous perennial plants producing flowers in thick whorls on spikes. Often called “bluebonnets” or “quaker bonnets,”
Describing the song’s inspiration, Zinnia says, “The 18-month incubation of “Lupins” was accompanied by many personal moments of grief; a time when it seemed no matter what direction I looked, I found others at their breaking points. Writing it served as a salve for a period of pain.”
Zinnia is the art pop project of Toronto-based Racheal Cardiello, who has been styled as “Kate Bush meets Meatloaf.” Influenced by artists like Bruce Springsteen, Shostakovich, and Big Thief, Zinnia’s sound blends cashmere layers of ‘80s synth-pop with intimate savors and intense beats.
Zinnia’s debut album, Sensations in Two Dot, is slated to drop in 2019, “followed by a lot of touring. We’re just itching to be out there, playing these songs as much as possible,” says the chanteuse.
A resonant guitar solo infuses the tune with affable energy, as the music blooms to almost orchestral supremacy, gleaming on vivid coloration imbued with pastel pigments.
“Lupins” opens on lightly tapping percussion and emerging synths. Zinnia’s gorgeous voice enters, gracious and elegant. Surfacing harmonic hues drift and ebb on soft coruscations, swelling in opulent sheens. A resonant guitar solo infuses the tune with affable energy, as the music blooms to almost orchestral supremacy, gleaming on vivid coloration imbued with pastel pigments.
Zinnia’s voice casts forth silky gilded tones full of scrumptious timbres and velvety textures. Put simply, it’s a deific, exquisite voice, exuding elusive tantalizing wisps of beauty akin to shibumi: eloquent, assertive, stylishly simple, radiating enchanting inflections, and pervasive tranquility.
The lyrics express the ineffable emotions inherent in deep passion.
“Lupins on the road and sorrow in the North / You’ve been hangin’ on a dream for so long / Got an aching heart in Montreal / Didn’t think it’d be so hard to let him love you / I see you there / I can feel you / I have arms to hold you but I haven’t words / C’mon to me now / Let me hold you / There’s a softness here I’ve taken down my walls.”
“Lupins” goes beyond superb and enters the realm of glorious, while the gorgeous voice of Zinnia mesmerizes.
