There’s something quietly seismic about AUNCE’s latest track “Zoo Friend.” It doesn’t explode — it unfolds. Like moss creeping over stone, or light filtering through early morning mist, this song creeps into your chest before you even realize it’s taken hold. And then it stays.

Known for crafting music that feels both earthy and interstellar, AUNCE (pronounced Aunts/Arnts) has never been easy to pin down. Her earlier tracks — “Beep Beep,” “Evergreen,” and “Silver Sun” — introduced us to a sonic world where you could be both grounded and floating, where electronic pulses coexisted with poetic introspection. “Zoo Friend” is a whole different kind of magic. It's not just a song — it’s a sensory experience, a soft protest, a whispered prayer to the living world.

“Zoo Friend” is a mood piece — delicate, atmospheric, and deeply felt. The beat is subtle and shifting, like leaves rustling in a breeze you can’t quite trace. The production is full of intentional disorientation — rhythms shimmer and drift out of phase just enough to make you lean in. Synths hum with both warmth and unease, toeing the line between organic and digital, dreaming of ancient forests.

The vocals are layered and fluid — some clear and close, others submerged, as though they’re rising up from under water or through a radio transmission from a half-remembered dream. Anna Edith Daly Edgington’s voice (aka AUNCE) doesn’t just sing — it guides. It slips between presence and echo, vulnerability and strength, always holding space for feeling over explanation.

This track is steeped in ecological grief and inter-species kinship. You feel the pain of witnessing harm — and the helplessness that comes with knowing your love for a being, a creature, or a tree might not be enough to protect it. But “Zoo Friend” doesn’t rage — it mourns quietly. It remembers.

It’s a lament for the silenced voices — of animals, ecosystems, unseen beings — and a call to re-attune our senses. The song speaks to those liminal moments of connection: locking eyes with an animal, pausing in a grove of trees, feeling known by something that doesn’t speak your language but understands you anyway.

The lyrics are sparse but potent. Lines like:

“All it took was one stare / to break in two”

“One thousand words came / falling out of my face”

...hit like poetry scrawled across a misted window — intimate, fleeting, and emotionally resonant. They’re fragments of something ancient. Something human, but also more-than-human.

Produced by AUNCE herself, with co-production by Chris Hyson — this track is a masterclass in restraint. Every sound matters, and nothing is overdone.

Mixed by TJ Allen and mastered by Guy Davie, the sound quality is pristine while maintaining a ghostly softness — think velvet-wrapped distortion, or raindrops on synth pads.

It’s minimal, but never empty. Ethereal, but never vague. There’s emotion in every beat, breath, and ripple of static.

This isn’t just a song — it’s part of a larger artistic ecosystem. AUNCE is building something bigger than a discography; she’s crafting a movement. A movement of cross-genre, cross-disciplinary work that includes dance, film, sound installations, and community-forward production models. She doesn’t just write music — she questions systems, reimagines industry norms, and opens doors for others (especially women and marginalized creatives in production).

She’s not playing by the rules. She’s writing new ones.

“Zoo Friend” is a sonic offering — gentle, haunted, and radically empathetic. It’s not here to fight for attention in a playlist shuffle. It’s here to be felt — like a creature passing quietly through your orbit, making eye contact, and reminding you that you’re not alone in your grief, your awe, or your longing.

If you're looking for music that connects you back to yourself, to the more-than-human world, and to feelings that don’t have neat little labels — AUNCE is the artist you need in your life. “Zoo Friend” doesn’t demand anything from you. It simply exists, and invites you to remember that you do, too.

It’s for fans of ZAND, FKA Twigs, Björk’s gentler moments, early Grimes, the emotional logic of nature documentaries and the silence between thoughts.

Listen late at night. Or in the woods. Or during that moment when you feel like you're remembering something that never happened — but somehow, still matters.

“Zoo Friend” is available now on all major streaming platforms

Listen to AUNCE and other similar artists on our Spotify Playlist ‘New Music Spotlight - Pop’

“Zoo Friend” - AUNCE

“Home, Heart & Soul” - Jace Mastra

Exclusive Interview: Tomasz Kowalczyk