Post by mattcissy on Jun 2, 2010 11:03:13 GMT
Cissy is a hybrid; an unlikely meeting of Synthpunk and Afrobeat asteroids, skewed in rhythm and time, joyful in collision and radiating polyrhythmic ripples from the core. Matt Dixon, Katie Moore, Gavin Montgomery and Matt Woodward create an unpredictable musical cartwheel, a homemade firework made by excitable kids on coffee. Dance beats become warped and fizz like electro space dust on the tongue. Angular guitar spikes jab playfully through the air, while bass and Mikrokorg keys surge through to complete the circuit.
Taking elements of Eno-era Talking Heads, Synthpunk pioneers The Units, Chicago street corner hustlers Heroic Doses and Fivestyle, Cissy also chews up further contemporary influences from bands like Mahjongg and LCD Soundsystem to blow up jittery, wonky and unflinchingly colourful sonic bubblegum. Like that Jawbreaker that tastes like ice-cream first, then cinnamon toast, then something weird that burns. ‘Ghost-ride The Whip’ sounds like Beefheart doing Afrobeat, while ‘Narp?’ comes on like an Electro-Afrobeat wigout, born from a squelching arpeggiator.
UK tour dates – July 2010
16.07 LONDON King’s Head Theatre
17.07 DERBY Big Blue Coffee Co
18.07 LEICESTER The Criterion
20.07 LONDON The Ivy House
22.07 SWINDON The Vic
23.07 BRIGHTON Engine Rooms
24.07 HITCHIN The George
25.07 MILTON KEYNES Kiln Farm Social Club
26.07 LONDON The Windmill
27.07 LIVERPOOL Mello Mello
28.07 SOUTHEND Bar Lambs
29.07 READING South St Arts Centre
30.07 NOTTINGHAM Chameleon
31.07 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
"I have tried, in the past, to express my love for Cissy. I have proclaimed them the most danceable band on our island. I can't describe, but I can factualise (it is a verb, I swear): Cissy is a band with some fantastic pedigree. One of Leeds' finest drummers, Matt Woodward, has played with US bands The Lapse and Origami, as well as The Dragon Rapide. Their super-guitarist Matthew Dixon is clearly harbouring the key to the 32-hour day, playing in the similarly supreme Beards too. Biographies are rendered useless once Cissy hit the boards. They fly the joyful polyrhythmic flag with one hand and ignite a party popper in the other. They are fun as golly gosh. Funky as golly gosh. They are tropical, adventurous and spikey." Hayley Avron (Plan B magazine / The Iron Wagon).
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