Landyn Zane took cinematic pop to theatrical new heights with his EP, Coming Attractions. Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust dedication courses through theatrical art pop that drifts the decades away, leaving you ready to roll up to a drive-in cinema in a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible, glass bottle of Coke in hand and your high school sweetheart beside you.
There’s a cosmic yearning within the closing single, Sleep in the Backyard, which goes out to the hopeless romantics; anyone who knows how it feels to hold a candle until they feel the burn. The swoon-worthy melody keeps the pace tantalisingly slow, giving desire and forlorn heartbreak room to breathe straight through to the soul. Diaphanous, graceful and ornately rich, the arrangement becomes moonlight caught on old film, flickering through an imagined Cedar Rapids romance and the childhood future that slipped into another timeline.
The vocal harmonies frame the sorrow in sumptuous cinema, affirming the classic nature of Landyn Zane’s songwriting within the lineage of John Lennon and Prince. Zane taught himself seven instruments and oversaw every musical and visual detail, extending each song into a fictional film campaign. That devotion gives Sleep in the Backyard a rare physical presence, ready to linger after the final credits surrender the screen.
Sleep in the Backyard is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.
Review by Amelia Vandergast
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