Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil to release his dance 'solo' album in 2017
He gives Kerrang! an update
Biffy Clyro singer Simon Neil has given Kerrang! an update on his solo project ZZC.
Simon has been creating music under the ZZC moniker (a name he unfortunately shares with a Japanese porn site) since 2014 when he rescored the Drive movie soundtrack, however now he’s finally getting ready for a full album release in 2017.
Penned while he was suffering from chronic writer’s block while working on Biffy Clyro’s Ellipsis, Simon says the album is a marked change in direction from his day job.
Simon told Kerrang!: “I’m reticent to say ‘solo’. It’s another outlet, I guess. It’s a purely electronic album.
“I wrote it and made it when I was trying to make ‘Ellipsis’ and I was worried about writing a Biffy song and making it as good as all our other songs. That wasn’t working so I had to go away and make some different music.
“I ended up making this dance record. It’s quite sparse. Some of it’s ambient, some of it’s hilarious. There’s not a guitar on it. It’ll be called ZZC but if you Google ‘ZZC’ it comes up as a Japanese porn site. I really should have checked.”
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Simon will be unveiling further details on the record in the coming months. You can follow him as ZZC on Twitter here.
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