Zoos of Berlin “Open the Wine” (exclusive)

23 May 2013 — Parker Bruce

Zoos of Berlin will release a new album with the wonderfully dramatic title, Lucifer in the Rain, on July 15 on the always great Time No Place. The Detroit band is something a little different for the label from LA (home to new NFOP fave Yola Fatoush, as well as Coyote Clean Up, Nguzunguzu, and Rainbow Arabia). "Open the Wine" is the perfect way to say hello to Zoos of Berlin. The opening a bottle of wine is the beginning of something: a revealing conversation or a heart-to-heart, opening the wine on a new album. The lead singer talks about a girl whose 'arms are long,' and he is jauntily accompanied by a metronome-esque backing and little fits of drums and swathes of harp strums saying 'Try another light, this won't turn on'. The musicians say the song is 'slow dancing reflected in an old saloon mirror, or a train leaving the station in reverse, clouds of steam pulled into the chimney'. And indeed, listening to the track, it's kind of all those things.