Check Out the New Trans Anthem ‘Closer to You’ From Zero Point Energy

A new grunge rock trans anthem comes from Brooklyn-based band Zero Point Energy, made up of two members of the long-defunct band Warehouse. 

“Closer to You” is the most recent single from Zero Point Energy, made up of Genesis Edenfield (he/they) and Ben Jackson (he/him), two-fifths of the beloved but long-defunct band Warehouse. This is the second single from their upcoming, debut album as a duo, Tilted Planet, following “Over My Head,” and is accompanied by a music video filmed by Edenfield on a camcorder over a year. It is a collection of footage of friends and family and represents the way a person realizes they are just as much a part of the world as they are witnessing it. “Closer to You” was written by Edenfield for his former partner, but is also about his own coming out process. 

“I really, really struggled to come out,” Edenfield explains in a brief essay about the creation of the album. “It was a huge reconciling with a lot of repressed trauma.” In this way, they didn’t want the song to minimize or simplify the trans experience into one acceptable way of coming out, as many people have different experiences with coming out, but to represent that it is often a complex experience where it can be both tragic and heroic. “I think so often trans portrayals in the media are required to be either overly heroic or so deeply tragic with little representation for a more nuanced human experience, which is often made up of small moments of both,” explains Edenfield. 

Edenfield and Jackson found each other again in 2018, two years after the dissolution of Warehouse, and have been working on Tilted Planet since. The album is a reflection on literal and esoteric transformations, as well as a representation of two friends rediscovering their love for musical collaboration. Tilted Planet is set to release on May 17.

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