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Zorch No.3 by Thax Douglas

checkered squares' conversion to 3 dimensions cause holes to bare their nasty grins all through each pillow, wind whistling codes more evil with each solution as they're thrown at each other by beings now invisible to the 3-dimensional eye-creaking with newness this eye tries to picture what the beings looked like in 2 dimensions but the resulting blurs are so smudgy the images are tossed into the wind emblazoning the pillows' symphony of war. -1/19/10 Mohawk

"5 bands to catch up to in 2010" The Onion/AV Club

"..makes me feel like a koala bear crapped a rainbow on my brain. Beautiful" rhythmsektion.com

"Zorch as a band.... might just be the saving grace of electronically-charged music of overly avant nature." thephotongod blogspot

"These guys, single-handedly changed how i feel about experimental music" tapebombs.com/musicblog

Zorch is an experimental/noise rock duo from Austin, TX that heaves packets of noise upon precisely composed sonnets of hallucination. Composed of Zac Trager (keyboards, omnichord, vocals) and Shmu (drums, omnichord, vocals), the two’s songs weave in and out the permeable membrane that divides melodious precision from haphazard insanity. They create a raucous sound filled with taut percussion and cacophonous synths, with “breaks that wouldn’t be out of place on a Fela Kuti or electric period Miles Davis record. Throw in some Rhodes, some drone and some free jazz drum fills and you got yourself a clusterfuck of awesome.” (Daybowbow.net)

Zorch works incessantly to produce a new kind of musical experience. The two never sit still for a moment, and their creative output is both intimidating and charming. From a Rod Stewart cover project (with songs constructed on Stewart’s lyrics alone) or Shmu’s side project of evocative and expertly composed shoegaze, to a hefty collection of improvisational mixtapes, they have surely mastered eclecticism.

The many facets of Zorch combine into one cohesive unit of music that can operate in a multitude of spheres. Music that inspires thought as well as freakouts, music that infects the brains of its listeners and seeps into psyches. They release this product into the wild to roam or to be coddled; it’s the listener’s choice. Their outlook says it all: that music is not merely a product but a living organism to be shared reshaped and recycled.

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