New album from the surrealist psychedelic pop pioneer who goes by the name ZOMBIE GIRLFRIEND HOSPITAL ATTACK FORCE. The new record is an epic double album called ‘Greenland’ and is available for free download in a variety of places. You can grab it in full here:
www.mediafire.com/?5nx0lzjmmoz
or have a listen before you leap over at CLLCT, here:
I recently wrote a little review of the first two ZGHAF records, so I won’t go into it again so soon why I think this guy is one of a unique group of individuals out there making genuinely original and massively underrated music. If I was to sum it up in two words I’d go for ‘catchily insane’ and my spellchecker is telling me that ‘catchily’ isn’t even really a word. So instead I’ll copy and paste what Sing Sun Sing says about his latest (and probably greatest) record:
‘Greenland’ is the name of a country to the Northeast of Canada, and an abandoned amusement park in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The country has a lot of ice, and the abandoned amusement park has a lot of spiders.
I think it’s interesting that two places that are actually kind of bleak and depressing are named ‘Greenland’… I guess because it seems like a such a happily-ever-after kind of name. But then, I suppose that the amusement park is so overgrown now that it is a lot greener than it used to be… and thanks to global warming, Greenland is getting agriculture. Ironic!
In some ways, this sort of thing somehow relates to what I was trying to capture on this, my first double-yet-not-double album. I think they’re actually fun songs, but a lot of them involve the end of the world or death or apathy or banality or creepiness or depression.
Some people may not enjoy such things, and some people might think my album is a complete piece of shit (they’re wrong, by the way– I rock), but I think a lot of people would probably have a pretty awesome time at the abandoned amusement park… it’s a really magical place.
Also, I consider this to be my most Zombie Girlfriend Hospital Attack Force-esque album… and probably my best one!
Find out more about ZGHAF here: