Score: The Complete Sextet Works, exhaustively documents the formative recordings of one of the most relentlessly innovative and challenging American avant-garde outfits of the ‘00s. With Zs, bandleader Sam Hillmer brought the conservatory's technical rigor and compositional sophistication to the DIY world of the punk and noise underground. Early Zs pieces like the ferociously disciplined “Olympics” and the breathless bit of extended reed work “Bump" are intensely structured yet fearlessly iconoclastic works; they truly defy categorization. The band's pointed instrumental assault is instantly recognizable, combining the fierce energies of avant-jazz and noise with the intense formal concentration of the most demanding chamber compositions. The result of this unusual marriage of styles is music that's thrillingly unorthodox and wholly unique. This collection contains more than four and a half hours of music, including every studio recording made by Zs during their first five years of existence, a bracing live set, and a handful of remixes by Excepter's Nathan Corbin.