“If you asked any member of The Tilt what their musical inspirations were for Up the Gospel, you would get 4 different, and long, lists,” multi-instrumentalist Zeta Io told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay in an email.
The self-described “avant pop band,” which first played under a different name in 2018, created its debut album, Up The Gospel during the pandemic. According to Io, the album was created on the foundation of giving listeners a feeling of hope during a time that included “the global rise of authoritarianism, the unending threat of nuclear annihilation, personal and spiritual isolation, and all the other various plagues of post-industrial society.”
This article appears in Jul 28 – Aug 3, 2022.