Zagg

Description

Zagg is the debut full-length album by Jackie Cohen and the follow-up to her two introductory EPs, Tacoma Night Terror Parts 1 & 2, which were called utterly spellbinding (The Line of Best Fit), a stunning and complete debut (Vinyl Me, Please), and sleazy-listening glam (The Guardian). The playing on Zagg by Cohen with the Spacebomb House Band and production by Jonathan Rado (Foxygen) and Matthew E. White with freak-of-nature orchestral arrangements by Trey Pollard is bright and beautiful across the whole grab-bag of love songs, laments, self-mortifications, meditations on sunscreen, hammer-anvil jams, and kit v. kit double drum cardio smash-bros looney tunes suicide pursuits. More than one of Jackies many nicknames, Zagg is also a shout out to her uncanny ability to select an unanticipated word or musical flourish, her disarming poetic acumen, her ability to zoom in and out at lightning speed and spin a phrase into a mantra, or the opposite of a mantra. Each song on this record is its own unique little world, keeping a listener delightfully off-kilter throughout the entire affair.