Cindy - Big Energy
CINDY DROP ‘BIG ENERGY’
Auckland, New Zealand pop-punk outfit Cindy dropped a two-track EP a few days ago. It’s called Big Energy.
Cindy
Frankly, this band is hard to get a handle on when it comes to who’s in the band. There are either three people or four people or five people. Their FB page bio reads: “I met 92 in the summer of 2013 and over a month or so we bonded through our disdain in a beige suburbia. Smoking menthols and drinking shitty RTD's, trying to make the most of a boring existence in the eastern suburbs. After getting maggot in many mall car parks we decided to jam in my parents’ basement. We're a pink nebula of NOS. We're bored, you're boring and we want more.”
And then it lists the band members as 92 (vocals), 237 (bass guitar), Greyturent Sando (drums). The numbers instead of names conjure up memories of SPECTRE’s Number Two in Thunderball.
The skintight, clean guitar solo bowled me over.
Of course, who knows when they last updated their FB page? Probably never, after having initially set it up. So let’s assume they’ve added one or even two members to the lineup, one of whom is female unless my hearing is really, really bad. Also, there's the photo, which displays five people - a dead giveaway if the photo is recent. They have some cool merch on their website. And of course, as is usually the case, the best shirts are SOLD OUT, which sucks.
The first track on Big Energy is called “Yard Sale,” opening potent dirty guitars riding a straight-forward crunching rhythm, along with a chop-stick-like piano, imbuing the tune with high-pitched pounding dynamics and tight colors. The skintight, clean guitar solo bowled me over. I was expecting a snarling, ultra-fuzzed out solo, and lo and behold up pops a hygienically tidy section. Great stuff!
“Goodbye” travels on grinding growling buzz-saw guitars supported by a thick, almost brittle rhythm, as the bratty sk8er-grrl tones imbue the lyrics with demanding, self-centered, I-need-attention snarky timbres.
Cindy definitely kicks it out with style and beaucoup raw energy, while the vocalist, whoever she is, delivers just the right amount of sassiness.
