Like all of the music and culture created by the Black artists it celebrates, Zulu do just the same in their own image on A New Tomorrow. To say that the debut full-length from the Los Angeles band of vocalist Anaiah Lei, guitarist Braxton Marcellous and Dez Yusuf, bassist Satchel Brown, and drummer Christine Cadette is merely hardcore despite Zulu very much being growing out of the pit would be a disservice. Then again, in these post-Turnstile times when anything goes, that’s very much the spirit emboldened in it from the very moments the listen sets in on “Africa” and clashes underground rap beats, soulful R&B think bubbles, experimental jazz interludes, and funky guitars against the expectant thrash and near-powerviolence from there on out. It’s a story that’s been writing itself far beyond the birth of punk music and from the dawn of mankind, fighting for visibility and credit while innovating the future, and Zulu are ensuring their footprints on history are seen here on out by those who follow in them.

Highlights: “Fakin’ Tha Funk (You Get Did)”, “We’re More Than This”, “Who Jah Bless No One Curse”

Zulu’s A New Tomorrow is available now on Flatspot Records.

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