If you thought combining all the European currencies into the
\nEuro was something amazing, you obviously haven’t heard Cyclefly
\nyet.<\/p>\n
Imagine it: a band comprised of two brothers from Ireland, a
\nbassist and drummer from France, and a guitarist from Italy. Sound
\nlike the World Cup of music? It’s real, and Cyclefly’s debut effort<\/p>\n
Generation Sap<\/i> shows that they’re here for the long run.<\/p>\n
Mixing pop sensibility with the intensity that was once the
\nfoundation of true alternative music, vocalist Declan O’Shea,
\nguitarists Ciaran O’Shea and Nono Presta, bassist Christian
\nMontagne and drummer Jean Michel Cavallo blast through eleven slabs
\nof raw meat that do a Texas two-step on your spinal column. It’s a
\nhelluva great feeling – and if the band had been able to maintain
\nthat energy level throughout the album, it would have been
\nunstoppable.<\/p>\n
They say that the proof is in the pudding, and in this case,
\nthat is the lead-off single “Supergod”. (If you have the cash,
\ndefinitely pick up the four-track single which includes a video of
\n“Supergod”.) Declan O’Shea could well be the next John Lydon, with
\nthe way he can put his vocals through acrobatics. Ciaran O’Shea and
\nPresta both know the right time to turn their Les Pauls from gentla
\nstrumming to full-tilt shred. All the while, Montagne and Cavallo
\nare providing a solid backbeat that keeps the whole song in
\nline.<\/p>\n
\nGeneration Sap<\/i> is filled with moments like that. The opening
\ntrack “Violet High” evokes some memories of Tool with the structure
\nthe rhythm section takes before Declan O’Shea steps up to the
\nmicrophone. Likewise, “Better Than You,” “Plastic Coated Man” and
\n“Crawl Down” all leave you begging for more, cna more often than
\nnot, Cyclefly is there to deliver.<\/p>\n
With all these strengths, it’s amazing that only two mistakes
\nare made throughout the course of
\nGeneration Sap<\/i>. First, “Whore” is a track that could have
\nbenefitted from the use of the razorblade; it takes a little too
\nlong for the band to make their musical point, and by the time they
\ndo, I found I had lost interest in the track. Second – and this is
\nby no means a mortal sin, especially for a band’s freshman effort –
\nthey just aren’t able to keep the intensity kicked up for the
\nlength of the album. Songs like “Sump,” “Slaves” and the title
\ntrack probably could have been killer, but it almost seems like the
\nband starts running out of gas at the end. They’re not bad tracks,
\nbut they’re not the same when you compare them to the bulk of the
\nmaterial on
\nGeneration Sap<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Still, these points are relatively minor, and they all are
\nthings that are correctable. Cyclefly proves often throughout
\nGeneration Sap<\/i> that they have the way and means to forge a
\nname for themselves in the world of alternative and rock. Now, all
\nthey need is a fighting chance – which is where you come in. Go
\nahead, pick it up… electricity running up and down your spine
\nrarely feels so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[7452],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-39100","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-cyclefly","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39100"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39100"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}