Zs

If you unfolded all the histories, peoples, compartments and conceptual frameworks surrounding the musical entity known as Zs, at its center you’d find a small, writhing, charged piece of copper, emitting a raw scent, hot to the touch, sending you cross-eyed. Even at its most elemental, Zs would remain heavily synesthetic.

Founded in 2000 in Brooklyn, NY, Zs is currently a trio featuring founder/saxophonist Sam Hillmer, guitarist Patrick Higgins and drummer Greg Fox. Their 2015 album, Xe, an immersive, goose-pimpled fever dream clocked in at number three on Rolling Stone’s best avant-garde albums of the year and they’ve been described by the New York Times as ‘one of the strongest avant-garde bands in New York’. Each member is a titan in their own right, lending their mortal bodies selflessly to the insatiable mind-link that is Zs. Any attempts to genrefy them would result in a long string of terms including ‘no’ and ‘post’, but such attempts would be foolhardy. Instead, consider what the term ‘extra-textural fricassee’ feels like in your brainhole.

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