Soul Circuits and Righteous Static: An Interview with MC Zappa
MC Zappa’s forthcoming LP, Critical Times, rises from four years of upheaval, self-reckoning and sharpened conviction. His decision to create what he dubs the first Christian Bit-Hop album didn’t arrive through marketing strategy or genre novelty, it emerged from the starkest corners of lived experience. Severe depression, a traumatic brain injury, material fixation and a mounting sense of moral collapse pushed him to reassess everything he thought he understood. That reassessment led him towards faith, scripture and a pressing need to interrogate the contradictions he saw in religious culture, personal behaviour and wider society. In this interview, he traces the genesis of Critical Times, the emotional architecture behind tracks like Why?, the spiritual mentorship that shaped the record, and the cinematic ideas gathering pace behind the scenes. What first sparked the concept for your upcoming LP, Critical Times, and how did the idea of creating the world’s first Christian Bit-Hop album start to form for you while you were stepping back from releasing music? It only takes a single second for your whole world to change. So imagine what can happen in four years. The last album I released was “Do You Mind?!” in 2021. Although it’s a mostly instrumental album that tells surrealist stories […]
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