This is something else pretty unique for a local release- a top-flight pop-rock piano player, and a young one to boot. Zac Clark is an 18-year-old who just graduated from Essex High School, and "Faking Amnesia" is a vibrant, mature effort with provocative lyrics ("I keep this roman candle burning/Both ends dipped in gasoline/Because I'm all about routine") and completely hummable tunes. He mines songwriting territory similar to that of Hyde Park native Gregory Douglass, but comparisons to a less cheeky version of Ben Folds might be more apt.
Brent Hallenbeck - Burlington Free Press