Light Syndicate // Cyril Snear // Arficeden

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LIGHT SYNDICATE
www.myspace.com/lightsyndicate

"As intricate as they are epic, Light Syndicate take up the baton of 'quiet-loud' music and run riot with it. They are aiming high creatively and impressively, they’re hitting their targets."- CHRIS LONG- BBC

"They are taking a highly successful template and contorting it into a cult shape of their own design" - SONICDICE.COM

"What a wonderful band. Fresh, inventive, emotional and tinged with a pleasing oddness." TOM ROBINSON on 6 MUSIC

CYRIL SNEAR
www.myspace.com/cyrilsnear

There is just so much going on here and yet it's all brilliantly developed. At times the vocal lines, flickery guitar parts and drumbeat seem to be actually operating in different time signatures, but it's a bit like overlaying sheets of tracing paper each bearing fragments of an image - the sum of the parts. The same could be said of the music as a whole; this is a band seemingly unconstrained by adherence to any one genre. the instrumentation Battles-ish math rock; the towers of effects from the Sonic Cathedral set; the timings and outstanding on-offbeat drums from a lost 65daysofstatic track; but overall Cyril Snear manage something you don't see very often - a truly individual sound which is absorbingly magnificent, and the crowd's enthusiastic reaction at the end is richly deserved.

- Manchestermusic.co.uk



ARFICEDEN
www.myspace.com/arficeden

First up are Arficeden. Three chaps and a microphone, which lies vacant and forlorn centre stage. This band are instrumental, maybe post rock, slightly stoned jazzateers and heavy with timings and guitars. The songs are long and intricate, but each player engages fully and impressively with the other. It can be an onerous soundtrack at times - these are pretty solid but stoic tunes, but when the guitars do burst out, hell, they make the compact trio sound like the four horsemen. Arficeden are intelligent craftsmen, well versed on the use of calculated rock moves, but with enough finesse to stir in much lighter influences. The end result is a deeper, maybe more complex and interesting form.

- manchestermusic.co.uk