“Zombie” is one of roughly 12 billion songs released in the 1990s that alternate between Deceptively Quiet Verses and Incredibly Loud Choruses, but the bonus sneak-attack aspect here—the whiplash abandonment of the sweetness and light that made “Dreams” and “Linger” so indelible—just knocks me on my ass. Sorry, sorry. There’s just got to be a better way to put that, but I haven’t found it yet.
