Coral Zero - Windwalker EP: An Instrumental Daydream
Coral Zero is the solo instrumental project from Lauren Chang, or oh_lorn on Instagram and TikTok. TikTok is where I first came across Lauren's music, where she posts mostly melodic and tranquil math-rock inspired riffs. Her guitar playing is excellent and the snippets shared on TikTok and Instagram always had me hoping for a full release, so I was excited to hear that she released her first EP 'Windwalker' under the name Coral Zero a few weeks ago. 'Windwalker' is a short EP - coming in at less than 10 minutes long, it feels like a quick breath of fresh air. The title could not be more fitting either, as each note feels like it's bouncing on the wind. Genre-wise, this would probably be classified as math-rock, and although math-rock style guitar is at it's foundation, there is a lot more electronic production and a lot less 'rock' than in most other music of the genre. In oh_lorn's oldest TikTok post, she wrote that her goal is to "make ...