Video: The Zolas - The Great Collapse

The new album by this reinvented Vancouver indie project has them finding solid footing in raw, energetic piano pop. It's OK that you've probably never heard of Zach Gray and Tom Dobrzanski, but they're on a fervent, foot-stomping mission to change that. The pair struck a nerve in hometown Vancouver, British Columbia, with their first project, the four-piece Lotus Child. That group achieved a cult following ricocheting between the city's downtown hipster hives with a particularly innovative and intelligent form of sweaty, swaggering, piano-driven pop. They attracted the attention of Howard Redekopp, the man...

Vancouver indie-rock/pop ensemble The Zolas are back with another deceptively infectous track from their 2009 debut album "Tic Toc Tic". Produced by Howard Redekopp (notable for prducing albums from Tegan and Sara , The New Pornographers , and Mother Mother ), Tic Toc Tic does well in delivering a three-piece band wrapped in a full-stage sound; The Great Collapse is a fine example that features it's own brass section, as well as an organ contribution that sounds like it could be a string section. The band is currently in the midst of a western Canadian [...]