Sygo Cries – In Outside Places (EP – Sygo Cries)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Wave-Pop.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Belgian formation Sygo Cries is driven by Mika Goedrijk (This Morn’Omina, Nebula-H, Powder Pussy), Wim Guillemyn, Olivier Moulin and Brooklyn Machet. The band was active in the 90s and reactivated a few years ago now.
Content: This new work features 3 songs, which are mainly driven by good-old Cold-Wave guitar playing and deep, vibrating bass lines. One of the tracks features female vocals while Mika Goedrijk remains the lead singer.
+ + + : Last year Sygo Cries released the excellent “Talking About Walls”-EP and holds on the spirit of this production. The main strength of this band and production is in the guitar playing. There also is a cool swing in the production.
– – – : Compared to “Talking About Walls” this EP sounds as B-sides. I’m missing a climax in the songs.
Conclusion: This is not the record I would recommend to discover Sygo Cries. This band has more potential than what they showed here.
Best songs: “Surrender – Blended Mix”.
Rate: 6.
Artist: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100065145997634
Listen to “In Outside Places”:
About Sygo Cries
Sygo Cries is a Belgian cold wave band built around Mika Goedrijk, who also works in This Morn’Omina, Nebula-H and Powder Pussy. The current line-up adds Wim Guillemyn, Olivier Moulin and Brooklyn Machet.
The band ran through the 1990s on the Afterfurcht label, releasing the cassettes “The Softer Sides / Romanik” in 1996 and “Some Thoughts In Twofold / Ambivalenz” in 1997. After a long gap the name returned with the “Split” CDr in 2016 and the 12″ “Talking About Walls” in 2021.
Afterfurcht issued “In Outside Places” as a CD EP on 20 May 2022, credited to Goedrijk, Guillemyn, Moulin and Machet.
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