They’ll have you going round in circles by the end of it
“A Satire For The World” has all the ingredients for a metallic feast - soaring axes, keyboards with body, backed up by excellent bass lines and ‘bomb ’em to bits’ drumming. Olly Gibbens deserves huge credit for excellent vocal work here; being melodic without loosing the hard spirit of metal.
“Strobe” is a ‘knocking on hells' door’ sound with disturbing mixes from the instruments. This has a very dark quality to it and the beat does have that strobe timing to it, whereas “Black Widow & A Film Noir” is rather ‘arty’ for a metal number, but the mix of sounds here really works well to transmit the spirit of the song. The soft and hard styles in this number are well woven together and it’s all held tight by superb drum work from Ryan Harris.
“Helium” has masterful keyboard work and is well structured for the vocals which have that ‘cigarettes and whisky’ quality to them, and “Emeritus” mixes vocal style laid over guitars that are in your head before you know it. Watch out for the scary quiet slot after which the band fires you back into the metal mainframe.
“F**king The Sentiment” is heavier and harder. This is a howitzer number with guns a blazing - watch out for the heavy breathing and manic giggle before they catch you out on this number. “Circles” is either accomplished music or has been put in to scare any metal fan by making them think they just walked into a 1960’s commune. Although well performed it's a bit long.
“I Mar The Chance” sets you back on track and contains some brilliant lyrics, like “my mind is going again, from settled to storm in a second, I settle for cynical” with disciplined drum work holding this number together.
“Nefer”’s great opening riff holds through the beginning, and once again Fony prove how good they are at producing this metal with melody. Great work from the whole band make this a fabulous number. It’s one of those that you know instantly is absolutely right.
“Wishlist, End” opens with that ‘hey man the trees are yellow’ sound, [Sounds like an interesting sound. - Ed] then drifts into a harder edged one, courtesy of some fine axes. This works, but it’s a number to play when you can’t bang your head any more.
The album has some brilliant high spots on “A Satire For The World”, “Strobe”, “F**king Sentiment” and in particular “Nefer”. More of this sound from Fony would have made for an album with a tighter feel to it.