Leaping and bounding through scuzz coloured mountains

Visual artist and champion of the skins, Zach Hill seems to like forcing himself out of static situations. As the previous drummer for Hella, he has rustled up some extra energy in the lower-leg department and taken to making his own schizted-out, flailing electro-limbs, hell-bent music, after his many stints in various bands. Since teaching himself how to drum in 1995, Hill has been part of the Holy Smokes, Nervous Cop, Team Sleep (featuring Chino Moreno of Deftones), Goon Moon, and The Ladies, an inimitable duo consisting of Zach on drums and Rob Crow (Pinback) on guitar. But his own music barely has a breath of smiliarity about it. It’s all apocalyptic, other-worldly, knowing-chants and wails, playground-battle distortion and weird, washy synths. Sometimes starting with robotic squeemishes not unlike the picture below, the gooey facepaint synths come melting out of the stratosphere and into yr face! His album is, of course, called Astrological Straits, so one should expect as much.

Zach Hill – Keep Calm and Carry On: MP3
Zach Hill – Street People: MP3
Zach Hill – Dark Art: MP3
Zach Hill – Myspace

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