I have been putting off listening to this CD for a while now because when I read their name I thought that they would just be another awful, sound alike Emo band. I decided finally that I would give this CD a chance and gave it a spin in my CD player – to my surprise what I heard on this CD didn’t make me want to Frisbee it out of the window. Quite the opposite in fact, I found that I really did quite enjoy this CD and listened to the CD in its entirety without once feeling the need to skip any tracks.
This is a really interesting EP from the quintet that formed in Summer 2000 and definitely shows signs of a wide range of influences. The band do touch on emotion and it is clearly present in their music, but it is the aggressive side of the band that really comes through in abundance and shows that they are a band that are well worth checking out. On display here are some fine guitar riffs, some awesome bass lines, booming drum beats, and fierce, thrilling vocals that at times will catch you emotionally and then at other stages you will feel like they are trying to rip your head right off. cryforsilence are clearly an amazingly talented band and on display here are five tunes that work extremely well together. I think you have to listen to this CD as a collection, if one song on its own is taken out and used as a single it just wouldn’t have the same impact. As a whole, this is an extremely powerful and emotionally fulfilling EP that will make you want to tell your friends, your family, and your pet goldfish just how good they are.
I can see cryforsilence being huge before long as they are an amazingly talented band and definitely have a lot of potential. It really shows that they have been together a long time and as a result they are making some fine music that people will still be listening to in years to come. I still think that the best is yet to come from this band, but already they are showing signs of great importance and meaning in a scene which is at the moment full of lifeless, whining twenty something’s feeling the need to tell everyone how much it hurts that they broke up with their last serious girlfriend. cryforsilence is a name that you will definitely be hearing a lot more of in the future.
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UK based film graduate with a huge passion for music, sports and video games.
