Earlier this year I was spending some time in one of the Spotify playlists. I can't remember exactly what it was, but my song history from that day shows a string of Melvins, Danzig and Cycle Sluts From Hell... so I was just hanging out and having a good time with it, and then it dropped a song from Zig Zags into the mix. I'd never heard of this band before, but they certainly had my attention. After the song finished I immediately queued it up again, and then when I started to check their Spotify page, I saw they had just released a new single for an upcoming album, so I checked that song too. That's all I needed. I was sold and I jumped over to preorder their new album, Deadbeat At Dawn.
The thing is, when the record arrived in May, I wasn't in the mood to check it out and just tossed it in a pile with a bunch of other vinyl that I'd been receiving in the mail, and forgot all about it. I've been slowly picking through that stack of records and when I saw that I was going to have to blog about that Zig Zags album now, I was feeling kind of indifferent about it. I'd forgotten all about the band and couldn't remember why I'd picked up this record in the first place. To be honest, I really wasn't in the mood to listen to this, but after a couple of spins, I recognized what attracted me to this... this is just a good time. Zig Zags have kind of an Annihilation Time thing going on with thier punk charged rock sound here... not as grimy and raw as AT, but it feels like they are in that same vein. I'm really digging this right now, and it appears that the band has been around for a while, so I might have to check out more from them at some point.
500 pressed on teal vinyl.
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