Weeping Icon - Weeping Icon (Compact Disc)

Weeping Icon - Weeping Icon (Compact Disc)Listening to Weeping Icons debut album is to enter a dim catacomb of psychical catharsis. Urgent yet calculated riffs rip through a thunderous pummel of percussion, an anomalous blend of punk and psychedelic drumming carries the songs with an atmosphere of organized chaos.. Lyrically they are both serious and sarcastic, trading off vocalists to confront issues central to a generation, dosing listeners with a controlled sense of horror and humor like

Lucky Daye

Loving You Backwards

As able to serve up the sweetest and most sensual sounds as he is the darkest and most depraved grooves

Humans often measure worth by accumulation — money

sharpened guitar work

the meaning of a lyric fragment is stretched and distorted

and a technicolor reinvention of the band’s somber dancefloor anthems

the record sees Joy's dual backgrounds in music and poetry evolve into a juxtaposition between soaring emotional synthpop and introspective devotional harmonies

the record is steeped in its own time warp of escapism

thoughtfully pared down to the fundamentals and kissed by sunshine and good times

digital only

pinching into a high lonesome wail