Kevin Bronson on November 21st, 2017

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“Water,” the first single from L.A.-based singer-songwriter-producer Zosia, floats its titular resource as a big metaphor for ebbs and flows, both of the personal kind and of the outside world. “I was feeling very directionless at the time, still adjusting to L.A.,” Zosia, born Anneke Lada, says of the period she worked on the song. “Life can feel so superficial, and the historic drought in California was sort of a reminder that none of that superficiality really matters. Water is life-giving and a symbol of purity; but it also has the power to create instant destruction when depleted or in excess. I love that contradiction. This song is about finding balance and not fucking up the planet while you’re at it.”

With the single, the songwriter (who chose the name Zosia as a tribute to her grandmother, a seamstress who fled Poland during World War II) casts her name into an ocean of artists mining dark, dreamy electro-pop for arresting mood swings and big statements. Made with producer Stephen Lukach, “Water” cascades over swelling synths and billowing vocals, quenching a thirst for some sort of equilibrium between dark and light.

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