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Distant Lands uses distorted guitars, cheap synths soaked in reverb, lo-fi drum machines and Zahara Jaime’s hushed, sometimes layered vocals. The songs move between driving indie rhythms, slowcore restraint and gauzy shoegaze, giving this concert a warmer, quieter centre than Spiral Your Way Out.

More about Zzzahara

Zzzahara is Zahara Jaime, a Mexican-Filipino songwriter raised in Highland Park who played guitar with Eyedress and U.S. Velvet and formed The Simps with Eyedress. Their solo catalogue for Lex Records links bedroom production to the changing streets, queer life and family history of their native Los Angeles.

A story

After David Lynch’s death, they started taking magnesium to dream again; one resulting dream became the basis of Distant Lands.

Playing

• 2026-11-06 · Pitchfork Avant-Garde · La Mécanique Ondulatoire · La Mécanique Ondulatoire
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Start here

• Distant Lands (2026) · Lex Records
  The current set’s hazy, grief-struck lo-fi and slowcore centre
• Spiral Your Way Out (2025) · Lex Records
  A sharper breakup record made during a fast three-month burst
• liminal spaces (2022) · Lex Records
  Bedroom indie chronicling queer adulthood and a changing Highland Park

Worked with

• Eyedress duo partner in The Simps
• Casey Lagos produced and mixed Distant Lands
• Winter featured on I Can Be Yours
• Jorge Elbrecht producer on Spiral Your Way Out
• Sarah Tudzin producer on Spiral Your Way Out

For fans of

Elliott Smith, Sky Ferreira, Eyedress, Winter, Cocteau Twins

Official links

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