zzzahara 2026

"He's so weird," they laugh. "Always talking about how 'everything's a dream! ' And you know what?

At that moment, I couldn't remember the last time I dreamed. I thought, that's fucked up. So I started taking magnesium and sh*t, trying to see what it was like to dream again.

" The ensuing dreams were heavy and strange. In one of them, Zzzahara was a teenager, drifting through space and telling their brother, who passed away when they were 12, about their life. "He was asking, like, do you remember me?

It really f*cked me up. " Their fourth album Distant Landswas born from the idea of communing with their brother; "talking to him about all aspects of my life across a long period of time. " The name comes from the sense that they exist, now, in different worlds -touching from a distance, as Ian Curtis would have it.

It also references disconnected headspace Zzzahara was in when theywere taking opiates in their early-twenties. "I would often feel like I was off in a different world, a dream world, blacked out and trying to connect to something that's not there.