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Carlin produced the band's debut album, Collected Memories, with Darryl Torr from Dear Reader. The album was released on May 5, 2008.
Nils van der Linden of Iafrica.com described the album as "the kind of slick but dark electro rock you'd expect a fan of New Order and Joy
Division to make".[1]
"The Knife" was chosen as the album's first single, and Carlin enlisted South African cinematographer Rob Malpage and producer Warwick
Allan to make the music video. Warwick had a concept for the video, but had not heard the song; they soon got together and adapted the
concept to suit the song ...read more
Carlin produced the band's debut album, Collected Memories, with Darryl Torr from Dear Reader. The album was released on May 5, 2008.
Nils van der Linden of Iafrica.com described the album as "the kind of slick but dark electro rock you'd expect a fan of New Order and Joy
Division to make".[1]
"The Knife" was chosen as the album's first single, and Carlin enlisted South African cinematographer Rob Malpage and producer Warwick
Allan to make the music video. Warwick had a concept for the video, but had not heard the song; they soon got together and adapted the
concept to suit the song. The Knife was #1 for 3 weeks on the Hi5@5 on 5FM and was also #1 for 5 weeks on the PUKFM charts.[citation
needed] It went to #1 on other South African campus stations. The video was #1 for a couple of weeks on the MK Top10 music videos in
South Africa.[citation needed] The release of the album and the national success of "The Knife" meant the band were "causing quite a stir"
according to Music Industry Online.[2]
At this point, Carlin needed to find additional members in order to enable the band to perform live. Though he was reluctant to assemble a
touring group,[1] he recruited Alan Shenton (guitar), Andrew Maskell (bass), Rob Davidson (keyboards) and Darren Leader (drums). "Arm
Yourself", the second single from Collected Memories, as well as its music video (again directed by Allan) was released in August 2008. The
third single released by Z&G is the hit "Oxymoron," for which an HD stop motion video was shot by the bands still photographer, Marcus
Maschwitz and directed & edited by band members, Greg Carlin and Alan Shenton. In January 2009 they released "Running Faster," followed
by "In My Eyes," "Fight! Fight! Fight!" and "Pariahs." In total, 'Collected Memories' produced 7 Top 10 singles and achieved numerous # 1’s
on the biggest National and College Radio stations around South Africa. « hide |
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