Sycco – Zorb

Sycco — aka Sasha McLeod, the 22-year-old First Nations singer, songwriter, and producer has released her highly anticipated debut album Zorb, released today via Future Classic.

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.

Sycco wrote and co-produced every track on the album, completing it with a cast of pop and electronic music’s biggest names including Chrome Sparks, Flume, Mallrat, Banoffee, and Styalz Fuego.

Sycco says: “When I met Jeremy (Chrome Sparks) we instantly connected and he is like a music soulmate.  We both worked incredibly hard on these songs and had so much fun being in this psychedelic world last year. Writing the album, I collaborated with so many incredibly talented individuals, and even worked on two songs with my housemates. It truly feels like an album created by community.”

Made electrifying by Sycco’s unique synth-driven, psychedelic pop music, Zorb is a journey through the wonderful chaos of your early 20s; inspired by Sasha navigating lockdowns, breakups, newfound independence and friendship all while living in a crumbling sharehouse in Brisbane – “The Zorb”. Each song is a different snapshot of sharehouse life, the album’s focus track ‘Meant To Be’ documents the first steps into independence, the excitement of moving out of home and the way a deep conversation with a friend can be the ultimate balm.

All the album visuals and music videos were shot at the sharehouse or hand-in-hand with her housemates to bring it back to where it all began.

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