CIRUELO CILINDRICO

Anyway......

Trying to describe the sound of this band is a bit difficult. They are somewhere between Radiohead (a large dosage), Iron Maiden and Nirvana. Add some unassuming shoe gazing vocals and you get this band...... somehow.

I reviewed one of their two EPs too and found little to appreciate there. The same goes for this, their latest album too. The Radiohead/Iron Maiden/Nirvana pastisj is featureless and is drudging along in the bottom of a valley. The music frankly remains me about one of the more barren mountain landscapes in Spain, where this band comes from, with it's barren sound. Electric guitars are well used here. Both metal heavy guitars and in a more restrained acoustic like fashion. The drums and bass is in the background, without adding much water to this barren desert. The dull, mumbling shoe gazing vocals also add sand to the desert. I guess this is called post rock. There are some good attempts here and there spread over this album. But most of this album barren and dull. I prefer a life in the mountains instead of this album, I am afraid. But the post rock fans out there should check this album out.

2 stars

This free EP is also almost forty-five minutes long. That sounds like an album to me. Value for money is what you get, all this 0.2 cents it costs you in fees to the ISP to download this EP/LP. But maybe I do not get this joke. Anyway, I am just splitting hairs now. Over to the music.

The music is not too shabby. A mix of the worst of European heavy metal bands, some Iron Maiden, a lot of Faith No More, some space rock like Hawkwind, some Pink Floyd and a lot of local flavours. That's Spain, in other words. This album is not breaking into flamenco though. But the sound makes it pretty obvious that this band is from the other side of the Pyrenees. The riffs is mostly metal riffs with some space rock rhythms entangled. The vocals is pretty bad though. Thin and not on the top of the music at all. The music too lacks any real quality. This EP mostly works in the background and nothing here makes any impression. This EP is pretty OK and the musicians does their best. But it does not have any good songs at all. I am afraid this EP is a miss. I will listen to and review their other releases too. Let's hope this EP is their one and only miss.

2 stars