Album Review: Zach Gill Shows You “Life In The Multiverse”
For some, life is like a video game. We are jumping through buildings, flying through streets, and crashing into people in search of the “Ultimate Win”. Grasping on that notion, Zach Gill’s Life In The Multiverse feels like 13 levels/ tracks virtually scoping through the parallels and paths life throws in our spiritual journey. Whether they are good or bad, is not the question for Gill as much as where do they lead? If life is a multiverse of causalities and choices, does it really have a meaning?
I know I got really deep in that last statement, but Zach Gill is an artist that grazes depth through veils of artful melodies and playful vocals. In songs, “San Francisco” or “Alright Then”, there is a subtle rascality to his voice. He sings his lyrics as if he is quietly observing everyone from the back of the party and inventing their conversations and motivations. That cool loner aspect peers in listeners curious to hear the wistful musings of Gill in tracks, “Chuck And The Nomads” and “Solstice”. For each track, Gill uses a sonic bounce in both his voice and guitar melody to hypnotize the audience as if he is a musical ball rolling through life’s playgrounds and highways in search of its owner. Gill’s ability to radiate the liberation and loneliness of realizing you are simply human makes Life In The Multiverse casually impactful and even folkish. Gill sets his instrumentals like a literal gaming system, of which each button signifies an action meant to inspire “something” within you. Such a frame makes his album title befitting; because if life is a multiverse then it certainly feels like a game, as well. Yet, as heard in the tender and raw “Eliza Grace”, dedicated to Gill’s daughter, there are times when you can win.
From “Window Display” to “Alchemy” and “Ride This Sucker Out”, Gill’s lyrics captures a mutual fun and earthiness by showing that, in life, our best options are usually forward. For however many “multiverses” we see and cross, the point is that they are fleeting, which means you have to be forwarding. You have to let go of all that you emotionally carry, in order to feel lighter and soar upwards. Of course, I sound like the beginning of an Oprah’s self-help book, but it is the truth, and I promise that Gill expresses it in a much lovelier, less sappier way. For More Information on Zach Gill And To Buy Life In The Multiverse On June 2 Click Here.
