The band is Phosphorescent. I did not hear Song for Zula when it came out. It’s a song about heartbreak, but if you read the comments below the video on YouTube, you see folks find it as part of their processing of grief. It did and does for me.
I had a close friend pass away last year, and almost immediately afterwards I heard this song on XPN. I had to find it, then bookmark it, then stick it in my Spotify. This song brings me back to that period of loss and sadness and frankly some shock in how my friend’s life ended so quickly. It sounds so mournful. And then I staged to the greater appreciation of our friendship, and an intentional mental cataloging of the best times of that friendship. It reminds me of that time. It is a very bittersweet song for me, but I feel it brings out a humanness I don’t always dwell in.
It’s been over a year since Craig left us. He’s still remembered fondly by his friends quite often, and still missed.