Current mood: BANG IT
Category: BANG IT Music
A month or so ago, I looked at the latest album by Cylob.
Latest is a bit of a misnomer, because Bounds Green consists of material from the mid nineties - it showcases the calmer side of Cylobs musical output.
Rock The Trojan Fader is a newer selection (though released before Bounds Green) and it's taken about 2 months to review, because it's probably the most intense LP I've heard since I was a thrash metal child..
Yes boss, so hard and heavy is this, that it took me 4 or 5 goes before I could get through it in one go.
Rock The Trojan Fader starts easily enough. Indeed the early stages are reasonably short and varried - there's breaks and the odd pause of space. You figure that's a precourser of what's to come - a mixture of blasting firepost beats and breaks, then the odd stop for a slash and a gulp of clear spring water..
But then things properly get going.
Yes boss, this album is 58.49m long and it's like being in the gym the day after a week long bender with no sleep. The running machine has got a mind of it's own AND IT'S FUCKING GOING FOR IT!!!
That's a slight exageration. Indeed 13 minutes in, hosts one of the most pleasant, clever and joyful tracks I've heard this year...
But it kicks on to being a primal burst of energy that rarely slows down.
You could say it perhaps lacks the PRAISE HELL SATAN DEATH POWER!!! of a Slayer record, but the intensity and the lack of a break or pause from the surge, makes this as intense a record as exists in my collection..
Specifically, it's the frequencies - the exact pitch of the sounds, the scattershot nature of the rhythms, the willful playfullness, the lack of easy reference points to stay for a second and take a fag...
In the interview I completed, Cylob talked about how he's struggling to keep going. About how there's not enough money, and perhaps this is a testament to that. A blast of frustration. Or perhaps it's just what it's like inside Cylobs head on a day to day...
I take it as this:
Rock the Trojan Fader is a brilliant but difficult LP.
Despite the lack of funds, the lack of security, the dimishing returns of putting his life into playing with electronic sounds as and how he feels they should be played, Cylob hasn't compromised or given up, but believes he has the time and right to do whatever he pleases EVEN MORE!!
It says:
"FUCK YOU!!! 59 MINUTES NO FUCKING EASY BREAK!!!! THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO MAKE AND I'M FUCKING MAKING IT"
BANG IT!!!
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