Zajac’s new track ‘Bang’ trades the haunting, spectral folk stylings of ‘Summer’ for a burst of sexually liberated joy. “A good bang at the end of a boring day won’t fix your life, but it might help,” says Zajac. Rooted in raw honesty and surrealist edge, the track is a testament to Zajac’s broader musical evolution – one shaped by deeply personal writing, a rich blend of folk textures and vibrant indie-rock tones, and an unflinching desire to voice the complex realities of modern womanhood. In ‘Bang’, she embraces physicality, joy, and reclamation with tongue-in-cheek confidence and melodic verve.

She continues “I wrote ‘Bang’ when I realised sex could be good. While that feels like something that should be taken for granted, it wasn’t for me as a young woman growing up. I think that’s the case for a lot of people. Confusing clashing bodies, often shadowed by the evil teenage world of slut shaming. I hated my body and I couldn’t figure out how to enjoy it. Then suddenly it was bliss, the shame was gone and I wanted to shout about it.”

“So I wrote ‘Bang.’ For the video, we wanted to keep it simple, it’s a celebration of female pleasure and presents a day in the life of a bored woman who loves to bang!”

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“As Jack’s mother says in the fable Death in the Nut: ‘without death there can be no life.’” Zajac states, speaking on the spectral folk of ‘Summer’. “‘Summer’ starts with a dream as many of my songs do, and a morning penny-drop realisation that we need more than love to be good for someone. It’s about my tendency to bury sadness in order to continue. It’s about the necessary fragility of life and forcing hard feelings in to make way for the good. Emily Dickinson’s poem got inside my head like the drum that beats at her own imagined funeral march. I give a verse to her.

“It is a song for those dreaming of better days, of wars to end, of lovers to return, of heads to leave the fog. And when Summer finally comes, we might have found enough strength from the bad to make it last.”

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