Zula

Zula is the pop project of Nate Terepka, Henry Terepka, Jo-Anne Hyun and Alejandro Salazar Dyer. Drawing from post-punk, singer-songwriter artists, and dance music, the band’s music has earnest, anxious, empathetic, awkward, outsider, DIY identity forged through years intensely performing in Brooklyn’s underground scene. Zula are feelers and thinkers invested in the present and future. For a long time the group operated under the premise of a psychedelic band, with hypnotic repetition at play in long, suspended tracks, spun from the intuitive, impressionistic songwriting of the Terepka cousins - always leaning towards subverting expectations rather than telegraphing genre influences. The project is now a collaboration with Jo-Anne Hyun and Alejandro Salazar Dyer, who have brought their own energies and an evolution to Zula’s music.

New Years is Zula’s third record. The band was started in 2010 by Henry and Nate, cousins who have been making music together since adolescence. Now joined by Alejandro Salazar Dyer and Jo-Anne Hyun, the foursome makes music informed by the experimentation of the band’s first two albums, but with a more playful, extroverted approach.