Sycco releases debut album “ZORB” and shares music video for single “Meant To Be”
Sycco - Meant To Be (Official Music Video)
SYCCO RELEASES HER GLOWING DEBUT ALBUM: ZORB
WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY SYCCO, IN COLLABORATION WITH CHROME SPARKS, FLUME, MALLRAT, BANOFFEE, & STYALZ FUEGO
OUT TODAY VIA FUTURE CLASSIC
LISTEN TO ZORB HERE
PRAISE FOR SYCCO
"Zorb is coming-of-age marvel...a supremely confident debut: sonically adventurous, thematically rich and emotionally vibrant in its youthful yearning.”
Sydney Morning Herald
"Refreshingly bonkers...an engaging body of work that doesn't feel like it's been A&R'd to death.”
The Australian
"Smoky vocals with a fittingly staccato chorus."
Billboard
"Effervescent."
NYLON
"One of Australia's most promising pop acts."
Vogue
"She has an ear for a groove."
KCRW
"Blends synth-pop, neo-soul, rock, and pop."
Cool Hunting
Today, Sycco — aka Sasha McLeod, the 22-year-old First Nations singer, songwriter, and producer who is “one of Australia’s most promising pop acts” (Vogue) — releases her debut LP Zorb via Future Classic, with focus track "Meant To Be." Listen to Zorb here.
The album lives in a syrup-textured sonic world, with psychedelic rock, dizzying hyperpop, and high-octane electronic dance music all melting together. But the acid-fried garage rock of her previous work is in full swing on Zorb, and when tuning in to those undertones, Sycco’s first full-length record feels stunningly luminescent.
Of today's release, Sycco says: “Zorb is about my inner and outer world. It's a snapshot of my life at present & the experiences I have had. I wrote it over the past years in my DIY Garage studio in Brisbane and in LA with Chrome Sparks. I wrote it with so many people, even my housemates, so it really feels like an album created by community. It's my psychedelic world.”
Previous glimpses of the glowing sounds in Zorb came with "Monkey Madness," “Touching and Talking" ("a swirling synth-pop groove that captures the fleeting feeling of love at first sight” - Rolling Stone), “Swarm” ("a glittering painting of an awfully lonely experience” - Earmilk), and “I’d Love To Tell You” (“a trippy daydream...recalls a bit of the addictive energy that propelled Troye Sivan’s ‘Rush’ to the forefront of the pop conversation in 2023” - Consequence).
For the past three years, Sycco has lived in a crumbling house in Brisbane with a resident crew of roommates who have become each other’s chosen family. Zorb was born out of that scrappy apartment and the experiences she had there: first love, first heart-break, and forming the friendships that sustained her through it all. They referred to that inner sanctum as “the Zorb” – an in-joke that captured the way they felt like they were in their own private Zorb ball. Hence, Zorb.
Sycco penned some tracks together with her housemates, as they together poured the feeling of big group hugs and living room dance parties to song. Others are her own private ruminations on romantic entanglements, growing up, and coming to see the world in wholly new ways. Sycco wrote and co-produced every track on the album, completing it with collaborators including Chrome Sparks, Flume, Mallrat, Banoffee, and Styalz Fuego. “I’m Here Now” features rapper, songwriter, and producer redveil — which came to be during an LA studio session where Sycco played him the album; redveil connected with the track upon first listen and immediately laid down a verse.
Made electrifying by Sycco’s unique synth-driven, psychedelic pop music, Zorb is a journey through the wonderful chaos of your early 20s; a love letter to friendship and the chosen communities that hold us when it feels like the world is going sideways.
Having garnered over 65 million career streams to date (with help from “Ripple,” her hit track with Flume), Sycco’s also seen praise from Billboard, NYLON, Paper, KCRW, and triple j, to name only a few. She has supported Tame Impala as well as Glass Animals on tour, played some of Australia’s biggest festivals, and already accumulated a list of industry accolades: a Times Square billboard as the face of Spotify’s GLOW Campaign, named one of Apple Music’s “Up Next” artists, honored with Australia’s prestigious Levi’s Music Prize, and more.
TRACKLIST
1. Buttered Up
2. I'd Love To Tell You
3. Meant To Be
4. Swarm
5. Bad World
6. I'm Here Now (feat. Redveil)
7. Monkey Madness
8. Touching and Talking
9. Ripple [prod. by Flume & Chrome Sparks]
10. Crossed My Mind
11. What a Wonderful Surprise
12. The End
13. Zeitgeist
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