twosyllable records

What are you listening to?

Well, as a music supervisor and music superlistener, it’s hard to pick just a few things, but THIS week, I’ve been into a record from new-to-the-scene Montreal post-punk youngsters, Ought, called “More Than Any Other Day” out this week on Constellation Records.  Check out the killer and sometimes-whacky single “Habit”.

Also new and in constant rotation is a record from Brooklyn veterans and label owners, Woods – “With Light and With Love” (Woodsist), a stellar and soulful return from Kelis–yes THAT Kelis!–“Food” (Ninjatune), and my favorite of the year, so far, War on Drugs – “Lost in the Dream” (Secretly Canadian).

Plus, I always have a few new-to-me old records on deck.  Currently I am schooling myself on the brilliance of Gram Parsons via The Flying Burrito Brothers – “Gilded Palace of Sin”, loving the beautiful early career of Bonnie Raitt on “Give it Up” and, in anticipation of the big Luaka Bop/RBMA night at BAM, I am ALL about weirdo African electronic music pioneer, William Onyeabor and his record “Atomic Bomb”.

About Zach:

Zach Pollakoff is the Senior Music Producer at Grey Group in NYC. He’s been at Grey for 3.5yrs supervising and producing original music for TV, radio and digital executions for multi-national brands like Gillette, the NFL, Canon, DirecTV, Volvo and many many MANY more. Zach also owns his own label, Twosyllable Records, plays guitar in a band called Eastern Midwestern and throws a monthly ad/creative get-together called One Month One Week One Day.