Zorch It! Zorch It Good!

When Zorch first scorched into my earhole I felt like Id drunk a kilogram of Toblerone chocolate melted down into a capsule form - I couldn't understand how such a small package tasted so goddamn good to the point of overconsumption. The Texan duo's new LP Zzoorrcchh was a cataclysmic avalanche of sugar noise - more of the same then. Sargent House have picked these hypersuckers up and you can see why - this kind of playful noise is Battles for the drugged set. Time to lose it - big time.

Fuck Thursday - let's get zorched.

Zorch Unbelievable...

Those effervescent crazy hepcats from Austin, Texas - Zorch - have some new tunes in the form of their Cosmic Gloss/E.M.F. handmade cassette EP (via Insect Records). Its all cut-up sonic devilry, sonic confectionery mainlined into your eardrums, designed for dancing and diabetes. You can preorder the cassette here - quick, there's only 100 copies! (You can also get it straight from the horse's mouth...here!)

But that's not all in the crazy world of Zorch. They have developed a new website for their incessant aural doodlings to reside on, www.rawasfuck.com. In the near future they are planning to release their cover of Prince's The Black Album, plus there is a Spice Girls - that's right, SPICE GIRLS - cover project in the works.

Holy fucking shit, right?!?!

They are ALSO doing a West Coast US tour. On Saturday they played in Los Angeles with SM approved Peter Pants!, plus played with the excellent Clipd Beaks on Sunday in Oakland. Tonight they hit Portland, Oregon, playing alongside the uber cool White Hinterland, and the summer tour continues right through to September, where they will join the likes of Doldrums and DD/MM/YYYY, amongst many others! The Zorch is held aloft in love...

Zorch - E.M.F.

Zorch those Holy Deacon Fuckers to the ground!!!

I saw Holy Fuck at Breeders' ATP last May, and was suitably impressed - their first LP has had a prominent place on my playlist ever since. The Canadians use live instruments and other non-instruments to create electronics...without the electronics. In doing so Holy Fuck have created a very refreshing and fun sound that a lot of bands are now trying to emulate.

I saw Dan Deacon only a few weeks later at ULU. The Baltimore mad scientist was brilliant - crowd participation and interaction combined with a blisteringly fun set that had all and sundry writhing around with the goofiest of grins. Hence Bromst was added to the mix.

Now if these two electro avant groups had a hedonistic night together in a multicoloured wigwam in the middle of the desert, the illegitimate lovechild would invariably shirk both bands whilst intrinsically holding onto their DNA, move to Austin Texas and call themselves Zorch.

Zorch made a hell of an impact at Austin's South By South West, and no wonder. Their two-piece noise orgy is everything that noise should be - intricate, loud, and fun. The best description of their sound has to be Rhythm Sektion's review ( "...makes me feel like a koala bear crapped a rainbow on my brain"). Get their demo for free here, and if you still arent sold, listen to the track below. Prepare for multicoloured fecal matter to flood your senses...

Zorch - Zut Alore!