Saintseneca

   
”A BRILLIANT, UPBEAT SONG” THAT “WILL HELP YOU GET THROUGH THE DAY.” - THE FADER

“SAINTSENECA SONGS TEND TO BLEND THE FANTASTICAL WITH THE ACHINGLY TRUE TO LIFE. AS A WRITER, ZAC LITTLE CREATES HIS OWN LITTLE WORLDS WITH THEIR OWN VOCABULARIES WHOSE MEANINGS ARE PURPOSEFULLY AMBIGUOUS. “ - STEREOGUM

"... ZAC LITTLE’S SONGS OFTEN SIMMER IN A SAD SWIRL OF DEATH AND ESOTERICA, BUT HIS DEADPAN RUMINATIONS ARE BUOYED BY THE SOUNDS OF EXOTIC INSTRUMENTS, CANDY-COLORED POP HOOKS AND MANY POINTS IN BETWEEN.” - NPR

Saintseneca’s Zac Little has been thinking a lot about memory. Not necessarily his memories, though they creep in often, too. Rather, he mulls over the idea of memory itself: its resilience, its haziness, how it slips away as we try to hang on, the way it resurfaces despite our best efforts to forget. Memory is the common thread running throughout the Columbus, OH folk-punk band’s fourth album, Pillar of Na, arriving in late summer via ANTI- Records. Following 2015’s critically lauded Such Things, the new album’s name is rooted in remembrance, referencing the Genesis story of Lot’s wife who looks back at a burning Sodom after God instructs her not to. She looks back, and God turns her into a pillar of salt. “Na,” meanwhile, is the chemical symbol for sodium. “Nah” is a passive refusal and the universal song word. It means nothing and stands for nothing. It is “as it is.”

Musically, Pillar of Na is Saintseneca’s most ambitious album to date, with Little aiming to incorporate genre elements he’d rarely heard in folk. “I wanted to use the idiom of folk-rock, or whatever you want to call it, and to try to do something that had never been done before,” Little explains. I told Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley) I wanted Violent Femmes meets the new Blade Runner soundtrack. I’m looking for the intersection between Kendrick Lamar and The Fairport Convention.”

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RIYL: Violent Femmes, Neutral Milk Hotel, Hop Along, Decemberists, Conor Oberst
TRY: #4, 3, 5, 6, 9
DIRTY: #7

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