A producer and multi-instrumentalist from Los Angeles, USA, Zach Tabori returns to our pages with fearless new album, Attack of The Clout Chasers.

By Graeme Smith

Feature artwork by Cal Schenkel

Attack of The Clout Chasers is an album that gives us twists and turns right from its offbeat opener, the modern folk and country vignette Rotten, Pt. 2. It lulls us into a false sense of security which is shattered by the frenetic punk rock of Nann Ray. Just as you get the measure of it, it steers towards classic, theatrical rock and you get a sense early on that this album is going to keep surprising you.

At times it feels like Tabori’s sound is akin to System of a Down like in …In A Thin White Shirt but then there’s a deviation into gentle jazz. Then there’s machine gun punk in JFK. Eclectic doesn’t go far enough to describe it.

As the album continues, it settles into a punk rock stride with a few diversions. Vanité ou la Mort is wonderfully quirky with contrasting heavy and light moments over a monumental fifteen minutes and 48 seconds. After that odyssey, Let’s Get Sick Together cleanses the palate in a quick-fire two minutes. End of The Fucking World closes the album in soft and lingering style.

Lyrically, the album covers not only the commodification of the self and our attention via social media, but also political polarisation and other modern ills.

Attack of The Clout Chasers is an album like no other. It’s out now and you can give it a listen below.