Cycle Schmeichel - s/t - Tape (2011)

Labels: Something Honest to Dance To
Review by: Andy Malcolm

This is the soundtrack album from the recent box-office flop that concerned Peter Schmeichel’s recent 2 wheeled jaunt through Eastern Europe. The music is frantically played, in the manner of bands such as Snowing. Playing twiddles super fast, and recording them poorly is definitely preferable to being a twiddly pop punk band with a clean recording, to the point where this sounds like something more old fashioned (i.e. a bit like early Spy vs Spy) than the usual twiddlemo knock offs doing the rounds. Second track “œSmoke Signals” in particular is a stand out, and “œContact” sounds like when Marshall Teller play fast. Everything is haphazard and slapdash, and probably quite fun to see done live. There is a whole 30 of these tapes, but an unlimited amount of free downloads, unless you are on a metered service, because you’ll get cut off if you try and down load it an unlimited amount of occasions.