ZIST – STATIC EYE – CS

Track Listing

GRAM
HILLS
FLOWER
VAINIS
BOATMAN
SPIDER
TREES
AMATEUR GODZ
GOOD
GLUE
BIG
FIRED BLUES
DROP
MOLY
SWAMP MORNING
BUG
TONY
FEED
SATISFY
LIFESTYLE

Notes

ZIST returns with STATIC EYE, a new album released by Almost Halloween Time Records and Cruel Records.

Eighteen songs from a place where reality has lost its shape but stubbornly keeps going.

STATIC EYE is filled with people inside cages, burning houses, streets turned into beds, boats that never pass again, spiders becoming vehicles for escape, tiny creatures suddenly growing enormous, amateur gods sitting on a bench, and dimensional flowers rescued from forests on fire.

It is a record of bodies, heads, veins, blood, smoke, mirrors and eyes that can no longer see. But it is also about very simple desires: to be satisfied, to be reached, to say hello, to keep the lifestyle you need, to find someone to shine with.

In “Lifestyle”, the plea to keep the life we have slowly becomes an inability to look that life in the face. “Feed” takes the head underwater, searching for something that can still be thought. “Swamp Morning” runs through swamps, burning houses and the corners of the mind. “Bug” turns escape into a ride on an insect, while “Spider” builds a giant web in which to run away from yourself.

Then there is “Firedblues”, where prayers are black as mud; “Big”, where a multitude of tiny beings suddenly becomes enormous; and “Amateur Gods”, a strange little theatre of improvised divinities, masks and ordinary gestures.

A flower survives a prison. A boatman waits for ships that will never pass again. A conversation offers no transmission and no salvation. A school teaches us how to breathe again. A guitar is covered in glue. Love becomes something that sticks, even when nobody knows why.

STATIC EYE does not look for a clean way out.
It keeps running instead.

released November 6, 2026

Album credits

This album is dedicated to the Demon of Opulence and the Static Eye that tries to control him.

BE CRUELl!

@CRUEL RECORDS
@ALMOST HALLOWEEN TIME RECORDS

Written, recorded, produced, perforemed and mixed by ZIST
Co-produced by Jackie
Recorded at Jeebo Recording and Cruel House Studio
Master by Andrea Fumelli
Made in 2025

Elia Lazzerini – drums on tracks 9; congas on tracks 10–14

Gufo Mangiasale – saxophone on tracks 3, 4, 9, 13; saw on track 18

Jackie – banjo on tracks 3, 6; some guitars on tracks 3, 4, 6, 8; backing vocals on tracks 3, 4, 6, 20. And drum recording production in all tracks

ZIST – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, bass, banjo, drums, percussion, vocals

Artwork by Luigi Falagario