STEVE CICHON – Heavy Sleeper (2012)

Now…

The last Steve Cichon album I heard was 2010’s “Cranial Feedback”, a release that was full of skill and technique, but ultimately not that exciting. New one “Heavy Sleeper” is a similar beast, though fortunately the adrenaline levels are pumped up several notches making it a lot more then mere background music.

The sound is still a combination of jazz, prog metal, hard rock and occasional electronica, but a lot more effort has been put into the variety and the spunkiness of the rhythms this time. Gone are the stupid live crowd effects, gone are the very fake drums, being replaced by fake but considerably better percussion sounds. The result is enthusiastic, interesting and a lot more energetic than the guy on the artwork.

To add a little icing to the musical cake, the production is arguably crisper this time too.

1. Heavy Sleeper
2. North By South
3. Moon Cycles
4. Smoke Signals
5. Whitley’s Song
6. Ambushed
7. Faded
8. Red Dance Trance
9. Era’s End
10. Inside the Machine

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