“Zombie” by Jamie T

Jamie T's third studio album, Carry On the Grudge, sent "Zombie" out as its second single in 2014, and it's an indie rock song about the least glamorous problem a songwriter has: getting nothing done. He wrote it alone and produced it with James Dring, who also played guitar and keyboards, and Cenzo Townshend mixed it. His cure for a dry spell, he told Time Out, is a book; around this record that meant Ted Hughes, Plath and Alvarez.

The Times' Ed Potton heard self-loathing and muscular poetry in it, plus a chorus that oddly calls up Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire". James Slater's video took its cue from Shaun of the Dead and parked Jamie and his band in a near-empty pub, and at the 2015 NME Awards the song won both Best Track and Best Video.

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