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Zweng delivers a beautiful reclamation of self, “Toronto Tapes” [Album]

  • May 27, 2025
  • Natalie Patrick
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Zweng returns with the raw-emotion exhibition, genre-bending new album Toronto Tapes, a testament of rebirth, resilience, and heart on your sleeve. On Precision Pressing and backed by Decent Music PR, "Toronto Tapes" is a confessional set to music. Inspired by a year of sobriety and personal discovery while living in Toronto, Zweng writes a deeply personal sound world that straddles the pop/indie/rock lines with an unapologetic vulnerability.

Recorded at the famous Kensington Sound Studios with producer Will Schollar, the 10-track project plays like an intimate diary pried open, with covers reimagined through pain and purpose and original songs whittled from lived experience. Zweng confesses, inquires,  and, in doing so, ultimately reclaims the artist he nearly lost.

Zweng leads off with "It's Good To Be Free," an anthem of defiance and freedom, and in so doing sets the scene for an album that will follow internal chaos and hard-won clarity in equal measure. His version of Pet Sematary by the Ramones is chilling in pace and delivery, turning the punk staple into a persuasive, tentative peace on relapse. Meanwhile, standout original Marianne is a gut-punch of a tribute, sung from the perspective of the father, his mother should have had an astonishing lyrical feat that will stick with you long after listening.

The toughest changes might be on "Take On Me," in which an upbeat ‘80s track by A-ha loses its synths and gains instead some agonising introspection. "Goodbye to You" morphs into an introspective break-up ode with layers of catharsis and sonic warmth, and one that finds Zweng’s craft in the familiar detail that feels profoundly personal. The album finished off with Changes, a beautiful rendition of Ozzy Osbourne’s classic. This song represents the whole arc of Zweng’s metamorphosis with such clarity that it brings a stunning tear drop to the eyes.

With a background that spans California to Toronto and includes scoring work for ABC Television and fronting the psychedelic garage outfit Coo Coo Birds, among other things, Zweng’s experiences are abundant on "Toronto Tapes." But it’s his emotional honesty and artistic bravery that make this project stand out.

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