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Music is emotion-evoking by all means, but few musicians can deliver the way Zorch does. The duo utilizes the maximum extent of their creativity to really pull you in. The entire album is like a series of short and incredibly unique films or books. Zzoorrcchh isn’t just music you listen to, but music you experience. It’s absorbing, it’s infectious, it’s plain brilliant. You’re being a told a story through a series of notes and chords.

In particular, the band does their miracle-making through approach. Each song sounds significantly different, and more importantly, incredibly unique. The mood is constantly changing, and a new chapter is constantly being told.

At times, Zzoorrcchh comes off as tribal in sound. For instance, the third and fourth songs fit together, and what started with a chanting group of voices turns into a pulsating beat. The fourth track, “This is the Way it Goes,” shows off how versatile and how stylistic Zorch is. The pulsating beat and atmospheric flurry of synth sounds create an audio-scape world of jungle gods armed to the teeth with instruments.

Now the obvious rebuttal to this kind of variation is, “Well that doesn’t sound like a very coherent album!” And even I would complain about it myself; but somewhere within all the musical intricacies and composition is a little bit of magic. Not once did I think to myself, “Boy, I have no clue what the hell is going on with this album,” because truth be told, it all fits incredibly well together. Zorch may enjoy experimenting with various styles but their particular sound remains the same.