Verzache Wears His Heart on His Sleeve on My Head Is a Moshpit
Listen to the Toronto artist s newest release in full courtesy of Virgin Music
Published Mar 05, 2021Verzache the indie bedroom pop project of Toronto s Zach Farache has returned with new material. His new album
My Head Is a Moshpit is out now via Virgin Music, and you can listen to it in full here at Exclaim!
Following the success of his 2018 single Needs which earned Farache 300 million worldwide streams and over 4 million fan-created uploads on TikTok
My Head Is a Moshpit offers a more personal look into the artist s life, as he opens up about his mental health and wears his heart on his sleeve.
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As bedroom pop continues to expand beyond the homely four walls of its early stars, this Canadian powerhouse producer and songwriter is preparing to shift the needle some more when his sprawling 19-track debut âMy Head Is A Moshpitâ arrives in March.
Verzache aka Zach Farache first started experimenting with music in his parentsâ basement, and it wasnât a humble acoustic guitar or the idea of penning lyrics in a scrappy notebook that sparked his interest either â it was making mash-ups on Garageband. âIt was like these two worlds are colliding,â he explains over Zoom, vividly describing the moment he struck gold layering a Childish Gambino a capella over Drakeâs âPound Cakeâ at some point in 2014.
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The DJs at KCBX clearly love to explore and enthusiastically share new music. Here are some of their picks for the top albums and songs of 2020.
Neal Losey, KCBX Music Director – The Morning Cup & Night Train
While I appreciate everyone who did a top ten list, I don t really do em. My brain doesn t work like that. Everything with me is sort of just off the top of my head, as it happens. I also have succumbed to being a music director for 25 years and I sort of think of music in terms of what I like to play on my show instead of what I like personally. For instance, played the Jason Isbell a lot on my show because I know people liked it. Number of times listened to at home = 0. What did I listen to at home? Lots of Johnny Guitar Watson. So, top ten albums on the Morning Cup this year? Probably