Sunbrella - 'Wrong'
After sharing the main stage at Metronome with the likes of Beck and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Sunnbrella's latest single is a ethereal foray from their bedroom-pop roots.
Whilst songwriter/singer David Zbirka was born in Prague, Sunnbrella started out life in his bedroom in London. Already hooked into the music scene at large, his first single ‘Feelin’ Invisible’ was produced alongside Lex Records signee Eyedress - and not long after he went on to support bdrmm, GHUM, Vacation and Baywaves all in the same year. He’s just recently returned from the main stage at Metronome festival in his hometown of Prague, and he’s brought with him the blissful ‘Wrong’.
After two brief seconds of a glitchy, music-box style fragmented melody that is both peculiar and compelling, ’Wrong’ bursts into being with the energy of early Foo Fighters. Produced by Patrick James Fitzroy, the song boasts an instantly classic kind of sound; its production achieving a shimmering beauty more than deserving of comparison to genre-defining Cocteau Twins.
‘Wrong’ pitches its tent just downwind from Slowdive, right next to my bloody valentine on the sandy beach of shoe-gaze - a perfect spot. Inspired by almost missing a flight, and subsequently the lyrics were written on that same flight, David Zbirka describes the song as representing “the transitional state of human emotion”. Its dreamlike sound definitely conjures an image of limbo; immersive guitars drenched in modulation, evolving subtly but never losing their momentum, even the distorted guitars that serve as the songs climax don’t detract from it’s swirling maze of a texture.
Sunnbrella are headlining Paper Dress Vintage in London on the 29th July, no doubt a must-see show for shoe-gaze fans and lovers of the ethereal!
Words by Ashley Garrod
