Singer-songwriter Beck Zegans has released her debut album, Engraving of Armor.
Co-produced with her bandmates Alex MacKay (Cutouts, Nation of Language) and Julian Fader (Remember Sports, Ava Luna) and featuring Palehound’s El Kempner, Engraving of Armor is a nine-track LP that explores Zegans’ switch during the last few years towards heavier, more confrontational music, taking the LP’s tracks through rock, psychedelia, and experimental folk genres.
“I got angrier during the pandemic and was listening to a lot of angrier music,” says Beck Zegans. “I think that inspired me to not hide behind metaphors too much. I tried to be pretty frank.”
The entirety of Engraving of Armor functions as a meditation on what it means to wear invisible shields and the emotional weight they carry, as well as who we become when those defenses begin to come apart.
Moving between contemplation and confrontation, Zegans both resists and attempts to answer this question across the album’s use of heavy guitars, analogue synths, and cyclical drum patterns.
Engraving of Armor is a special thing – it’s cathartic and doesn’t pull its punches, and deserves all the attention it will no doubt get.
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