Search - Zaza :: Cameo

American Shoegaze/Slowcore Revival

Christopher Broome | 12/21/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Zaza is more in line with bringing "Galaxie 500" to its logical extreme rather than assembling a British shoegaze pastiche--the kind of music many of their contemporaries would build with the same tools. The vocals fall into two categories: "hushed" and "hushed falsetto" both variants drifting in reverb. This is also a platter that shares an aesthetic with the ragged electronica of Bibio or Flying Lotus. The beats generally sound programmed, and the guitars occasionally sound like guitars, but mostly everything echoes off everything else while marching toward slow burn climaxes.



Cameo is a decent length EP that works as a complete piece by virtue of confident sequencing. In this context, following a yearning "Arms Length", centerpiece "Repetition" is a candidate for song of the year.



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