No Vacation for Murder

Zilla Rocca & The 5 O’Clock Shadow Boxers

2015

It’s a concept album about revenge: What do you do when you’ve been betrayed, and how far are you willing to go to even the scales?

The most pervasive plot line throughout the LP is revenge. Being consumed with designs on reprisal, Zilla outlines a slow and costly descent into destructive cycles, fruitless violence, unintended loss, obsession and bleak murder fantasies. Even though the air is thick with tension, the ethos is fiercely rooted at the center. A Hollywood ending is not in the cards. What is in the cards is rum-like clarity at the end of a razor blade highway: personal revelations mean nothing within a city that never ceases to snatch bodies.