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Henry - Cyanide
Artist: Henry (www.henry-site.com)
Title: Cyanide
Genre: Alt-Rock
Henry is three people.
Brian Toomey on drums
Tom Rasku on bass
Don Gould on songwriting, vocals and guitar
Together they probe the alternative rock style of Velvet Underground and Weezer for 24 minutes with:
1. Always Be Blue
2. Light Coming Through The Ceiling
3. Old Seventeen
4. Broke in The Wood
5. Somebody
6. Cyanide
7. Not Really Sure Who's Going
8. Lost Vacation
It's their debut album which may or may not be apparent when you hear the cross- section of DIY-style lazy vocal vs. upswept music. What comes out as REM influence sometimes is more akin to the personality conflict between lead singer Gould and the guitar-driven music that is pulled with the strength of an ox through these troubled times.
True, they have their share of ballads, pushing along the darkness that knows not love. I can't make out the lyrics and can't locate them at the site, but if they sing of flowers and good times ahead and the promise of spring I'll eat my cat. The bleak melodies are bleak in the sense of no sun, no fun, but the music, like a Pink Floyd church social, continues on and on through whatever hardships stack up.
Henry's tunes are like the 80s, kicking the likes of Sting and Asia out on their asses and grooving into the unlit alleys and cult clubs that gave life to a culture.
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