Premiere: Zack Keim Shares New Reimagined Model of “Battery Lane”
“Battery Lane – Reimagined” With Movie Composer Ethan Cohen is Out October thirtieth. Deluxe Album coming in 2026
Oct 29, 2025
Images by Anthony Peduzzi
Earlier this 12 months, Pittsburgh-based indie singer/songwriter Zack Keim shared his sophomore album, Battery Lane. The report traces a winding and nostalgic tour by way of Keim’s younger maturity within the Washington D.C. space, soundtracking wistful heartache with jangly and psychedelic shades of people pop and storage rock. One of many highlights from the report, its heat, sunset-hued title monitor, caught the eye of Los Angeles-based composer, producer, and arranger Ethan Cohen. At the moment, Keim and Cohen are teaming as much as share a string-backed reinterpretation of “Battery Lane,” premiering with Underneath the Radar.
“Battery Lane – Reimagined” retains Keim’s plaintive vocal efficiency, together with all of the accompanying craving, however replaces the serene acoustic chords and twinkling piano accents with stirring chamber pop strings. Cohen’s composing and arranging credit have proven up in loads of movie and TV initiatives over time, and he brings that very same filmic sensibility to “Battery Lane.” The strings conjure up a newfound sense of spacious scale and fill the sprawling combine with keening orchestral tones, reworking Keim’s intimate meditations right into a decadently dramatic vignette made for the display screen.
Keim says of the brand new association, “I met Ethan Cohen by way of my cousin Mitchell McDermott, who co-wrote ‘Battery Lane’ with me. We have been on the lookout for a reimagined model of the tune with an orchestral association. I met Ethan in Los Angeles, we talked extra, and ultimately, he created this model, taking part in all of the components, that truthfully brings me to tears. I really feel honored to have labored with him and am actually happy with what he did.”
“This monitor is a teaser of what’s to come back in early 2026,” Keim says. “I’m beginning to work on a Deluxe Version of the album Battery Lane, that includes unreleased songs and outtakes from the report. Will probably be a digital launch, with a bodily model seemingly coming by way of the type of us at Tremendous Sport Information.
Cohen says of the monitor, “It’s not too usually that I get to work with East Coast artists, and it’s much more particular to work on a tune written about residing within the DMV—an space very close to and pricey to my coronary heart, and coincidentally the place I spent the primary 18 years of my life. As a movie and TV composer, I really feel this tune supplied me a singular alternative to attract on my visible narrative sensibilities to create a extra cinematic interpretation of Zack’s nostalgic work.”
Try the reimagined tune early under. Zack Keim’s newest album, Battery Lane, is out now by way of Tremendous Sport Information, the label of CAAMP’s Evan Westfall. Order the album right here, with a deluxe model coming in 2026.
