"ZAS makes awesome and unique dance music!"
- Wot's Worthwhile NYC: Fashion and Music, 2011.-------
"Zachery Allan Starkey has musically gone to other side with new synth inventions, witty songs, and fame all over the world. Most of his songs, such as his hit NO TEXTING ON THE DANCE FLOOR!, tackle technology's strange effect on interpersonal communication."
-Wecanthesong.org, 2011.----------
"ZAS has some musical genius that is so far advanced, it just sounds like noise to the mere mortals who review it. Perhaps he is a perfect being sent from a distant galaxy to probe our puny human minds with his synths. Whatever the case, he has become a legend in and of himself . I'll tell you why- he is a genius. Love him or hate him, he got your attention.I will continue to avoid texting on the dance floor, and I will forever be on Team ZAS."
-Melt Magazine, September 2010.--------------
" ZAS's new album COMMUNICATIONFUCKING GENIUS!"
-The Other Paper, May 2010.----------------
"Just in time for Valentine's Day, Zachery Allan Starkey has seen fit to release the timely single "Love Is a Form of Mental Illness." It's another slice of post-Euro-weenie-electro-pop with Daniel Johnston/Wesley Willis-like vocals by the Man Who Would Be Mr. Gaga."
- The Other Paper (JP), February 11th, 2010.------------
" Starkey's Cocaine!, it is brilliantly called—brilliantly titled, brilliantly executed, brilliantly everything.I predict it will become an international hit and on corporate mall playlists everywhere, like Forever 21Girls react to the Richard Simmons-style aerobics disco beat—they dance. Bottomest of bottom lines: You need to hear this."-------------------
-The Other Paper (John Petric), October 15th, 2009
"Cocaine!" is sleek and sharp. And though Starkey's vocals are still an acquired taste, he does a pretty good LCD Soundsystem homage here. That Casio drumbeat and those skittering keyboards make good bedfellows."
- The Alive! (Chris Deville), October 14th, 2009------------
"The first taste of the new Starkey is his new single, "NO TEXTING ON THE DANCE FLOOR!". The song tackles technology's strange effect on interpersonal communication. Matched with synthesizers and drum machines played by hand, Starkey is using mixes directly from co-producer Bryan Moss' four-track and eight-track machines. The result is raw, lively recordings that verge on outsider art but definitely capture Starkey's intended vibe…meet Zach Starkey 2.0."
- The Alive! Newspaper, April 30th, 2009.----------------
"Upbeat electro-dance tunes with wry, and possibly ironic, commentary on the club and social scenes."
- The Columbus Dispatch, April 30th, 2009.--------------
"What is there to say about Zachery Allan Starkey that hasn't already been said? Musically, he's somewhere between Depeche Mode's Martin Gore and a troll doll. Still, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in the music scene with greater determination or brassier balls than Starkey. Hiis new single "NO TEXTING ON THE DANCE FLOOR!" is worth a spin."
- The Other Paper, April 30th, 2009.-------------------
"Original dance music influenced irreparably by New Order, Public Image Ltd. and Depeche Mode.What it lacks in forward thinking it makes up for in sheer complexity: Nearly every song contains numerous drum lines, guitars and a crushing number of keyboards and synthesizers.There's a big-city feel to much of itthis collection of dance songs—delayed so long, surrounded by so much hype and hate—is pretty good."
-The Alive, April 26th, 2007.------------------
"12 songs and 79 minutes of complex, multi-layered instrumentation, that's quite an ambitious project. It's also a very lyrical record, something you don't hear a lot in dance music. The most controversial musician in Columbus."
-The Other Paper, April 26th, 2007.------------------------
"All of the time Starkey has spent in nightclubs clearly has given him an innate understanding of dance music, and he knows what people want to hear."
-U. Weekly, 2008--------------------------
"One of the most interesting and distinctive musicians I have ever met, his record Solitaire set the city on fire."
- Dan Thomas, Host "Talk of the Town" with Danno, WCRS LP/FM 102.1/98.3. November 2008
