Last week’s entry featured a singer via the 2013 Song, By Toad Sampler. Today’s featured group, Zed Penguin, were also on that sampler, but I also have two further tracks, courtesy of them being part of a spilt 12″ on the same label in the same year. This is one of them:-
mp3: Zed Penguin – Wandering
There are four musicians in the Edinburgh-based group – Matthew Winter (vocals, guitar), James Metcalfe (bass), Casey Miller (drums) and Atzi Muramatsu (cello). All the music I have dates from 2013, but there was, much later, a debut album A Ghost, A Beast issued on Song, By Toad in 2019. The reason for such a delay is sad and sickening, in that Matthew Winter was the victim of a serious assault one evening in Edinburgh, the effects of which were significant and long-lasting. Not only was his physical and mental health impacted, but the inability to be in any paid employment meant that finances to work on the album weren’t there.
The album was one of the last to be released on Song, By Toad prior to the label coming to an end. There’s still a Zed Penguin presence on Bandcamp and Facebook, but there’s been no signs of any new music being recorded or released.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 