For a pair of grown up humans, Zvilnik spend a lot of time thinking about robots. That isn't to say that they are soulless and inhuman, but they don't have a lot of time for all those wet and squishy feelings, unless there's a robot having those feelings.

They grew up reading classic sci-fi - Asimov's Foundation series, Phillip K Dick and their older siblings' issues of 2000AD. They reached their formative years listening to the hits of broadway and the west end. Then they discovered guitars and drums and distortion pedals and when the pair of them met many years later they mashed all that stuff together into Zvilnik. They're more concerned with unnecessary back street surgery and interdimensional monster invasions, and are inspired by the successful failure of Nikola Tesla and the sentient bomb in John Carpenter's Dark Star.

Musically free-range, they roam where they please, but maintain a lyrical and vocal core that they can reach out from, always shooting for a happy medium between experiment and enjoyment. Just because they're singing about the Stanford Prison Experiment, doesn't mean they don't want everyone to have a good time at the same time. In the end, none of it is that serious, but that's not to say it's silly. "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down", as a wise old witch once said, and you can hide plenty of truth in a bit of levity.

If it helps, they've been described as "Electric Six meets They Might Be Giants".