Upon hearing Cygnets, one probably wouldn\u2019t surmise the trio is from Canada. In fact, you\u2019d probably think their dark brand of synth-pop emanates from across the Atlantic and was penned 15+ years ago. But unlike a lot of the English outfits they take influence from, Cygnets inject a very dance friendly vibe with plenty of glorious beats to their rather ominous wordplay, choosing to not rely on just gloom with their songcraft.<\/p>\n
Equal parts post-punk, New Wave, and \u201880s pop, Cygnets utilize an endless arsenal of synth hooks with rapid fire drumming exquisitely, just as they do more guitar driven post-punk riffage that\u2019s complemented by the keys. Logan Turner\u2019s deep voice sets well with the bleak songwriting, as he repeatedly yelps out ambiguous phrases. Amazingly, despite the underlying brooding, every track here leaves your body unable to sit still, the undeniable energy finding its way through the abyss.<\/p>\n
At 14 songs, this is a lengthy listen, though the band does an excellent job of switching gears so as to not drift off into background music mode. Tracks like \u201cTeenager\u201d take their upbeat synth-punk to an entirely new level, while later in the disc the shorter \u201cRx Victims\u201d illustrates the band succeeds at brevity, too. Maybe the most interesting point on the disc, \u201cSarah Smith\u201d builds and then erupts into an ebullient display of frustration and power \u2013 definitely the most intense moment contained herein. <\/p>\n
The band are giving away Dark Days<\/i> as well as their entire discography for free at their site, though just cause they\u2019re handing the discs out don\u2019t go thinking this is some haphazard effort of mediocre arrangements. On the contrary, it took chief songwriter Logan Turner hundreds of demos to come up with these songs, and the result is a highly polished mesh of nods to luminaries like Ian Curtis and Morrissey yet with an updated, modern spin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":30902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8815],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-42581","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-cygnets","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42581","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42581"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}