Swiss shoegaze trio Zabriskie continue their ascent with the announcement of their new EP Ghosts In Time. Accompanying the news is the mesmerising lead single ‘Stone Temple’, a sweeping and atmospheric track that showcases the Zurich-based bands feel for beautiful melancholy and spacious atmospheres.
Immersive textures and dreamlike sensibilities, the single showcases Zabriskie’s stylistic use of cavernous reverbs and delicate guitar riffs over the backbone of bass and drums. It offers a rich, enveloping soundscape that balances emotional depth with dynamic intensity. Drawing comparisons to genre pioneers while retaining a voice unmistakably their own, Zabriskie transforms texture and atmosphere into a powerful emotional language.
Offering a preview of Ghosts In Time, a record that finds the band refining their sonic identity while pushing their songwriting into more cinematic territory – ‘Stone Temple’ brings an affecting, haunting blend of shoegaze tendencies with moments of sprawling noise-rock and distant vocals akin to the likes of slowdive.
Formed around the longstanding creative partnership of vocalist and guitarist Alex Herter and bassist Andreas Vischer, who first performed together in a touring grunge band during the 1990s, Zabriskie evolved into its current incarnation with the addition of drummer Andy Hofstetter. Since emerging in 2016, the trio have steadily built a reputation through a series of acclaimed releases and a consistent live presence across Switzerland.
Across the new EP Ghosts In Time, the band explore themes of memory, distance, consequence and self-reflection through a collection of songs that unfold less as a traditional narrative and more as a series of interconnected emotional landscapes.
Listen to the new single below and the rest of the full EP:
