Reviewed by Angie Hill

On first impressions you're met with a good sound and with these guys being DC Talk's backing band you'd expect nothing else. The sound is catchy with good guitar riffs and a toe tapping beat. Production-wise they have an excellent sound - fluid and well practised. Guitars, drums and the odd trombone thrown into the first track, "God Is Good", wavers on ska but doesn't commit to it, merely borrows the bounciness of it. Vocally they are clear and concise, you can hear what they say and so lyric-wise you can hear the message they are trying to get across, but that isn't so apparent. Put The Beatles, Nirvana and the Lightning Seeds in a room, remove Lennon, McCartney and Cobaine then you have the sound but not neither the experience or natural flow of the music. As an album goes it does actually hold its own although the album does have lots of Hollywood special effects thrown in. Adding to the impact but not the plot. To sum up Zilch, they are good musically and show promise. If they were to have spent more time concentrating on lyrics rather than nice guitar riffs this would have been an exceptional debut album.

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