Scottish-born songwriter Iona Zajac returns with new song ‘Summer’.

CLASH caught the artist in London last year, playing a special celebration of pivotal 60s folk club Les Cousins alongside the Broadside Hacks collective. Airing some special new ideas, Iona Zajac has now followed through on this energy.

Out now, ‘Summer’ is a dark folk hymnal, built around a spider-like guitar line and her patiently incisive vocal.

A poetic lyric shrouded in a deep sense of atmosphere, ‘Summer’ points to greater goals from this talented artist. Iona comments…

“As Jack’s mother says in the fable Death in the Nut: ‘without death there can be no life.’ Summer starts with a dream as many of my songs do, and a morning penny-drop realisation that we need more than love to be good for someone. It’s about my tendency to bury sadness in order to continue. It’s about the necessary fragility of life and forcing hard feelings in to make way for the good. Emily Dickinson’s poem got inside my head like the drum that beats at her own imagined funeral march. I give a verse to her.”

“It is a song for those dreaming of better days, of wars to end, of lovers to return, of heads to leave the fog. And when Summer finally comes, we might have found enough strength from the bad to make it last.” 

Check out ‘Summer Below’.

Photo Credit: Izzie Austin