{"id":7604,"date":"2019-08-24T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=7604"},"modified":"2019-08-20T15:52:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T15:52:01","slug":"7604","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=7604","title":{"rendered":"The X Ray Eyes &#8211; Destiny Is Depressed (self released)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/a1137973136_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7605 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/a1137973136_10-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/a1137973136_10-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/a1137973136_10-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/a1137973136_10-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/a1137973136_10-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/a1137973136_10-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/a1137973136_10-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/a1137973136_10.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The third album from these Yorkshire punks sees them dish up a really strong starting Eleven. From the front to the back they never offer anything other than their best and the sound is as you&#8217;d expect from a Cyanide Pill its got plenty of sharp edges great lyrics and loads of punchy tunes.\u00a0 its got pace and an eye for goal as every tune has a bloody cracking hook and as the songs bounce into one another its got stamina and a hell of a lot of go.<\/p>\n<p>Take &#8216;<span class=\"title\">Hallelujah<\/span>&#8216; its a full-on assault with a chaotic pace and hypnotic riff it&#8217;s thundering towards the chorus as it offers up praise to the punk rock Gods and gets rewarded &#8211; Amen to that!<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;E.V.I.L&#8217; is garage rock n roll like the Hellacopters used to dish up on supershitty.\u00a0 It&#8217;s dirty and has a killer riff that rolls along with the drums.\u00a0 the track is a rush and great to hear a band tackle this dirty punk n roll with such enthusiasm. There&#8217;s a smart amount of 70&#8217;s glam pop pressed into the mix like &#8216;I Think I&#8217;m Ready Now&#8217; its got some early Hives cockiness in its makeup and I love the bass throb on the breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>Sy, Amir, Jock and Deany have got it nailed down and rip through song after song with verve and enthusiasm that only comes from a band doing this for real and 100% playing like their lives depend on it. &#8216;Trouble&#8217; is punchy like a stomper from Slade but rather than being Glam it&#8217;s punk rock in attitude. A hint of on a rope in the riff which is never going to be disliked at RPM HQ.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of music to get through and you might need a banana or some water by the time you reach &#8216;Afraid Of You&#8217; with its driving bassline and new wave vocal on the verse.\u00a0 It only leaves &#8216;Tried And Tested&#8217; to wrap this one up and again the X-Ray Eyes have delivered a sharp and thoroughly entertaining album full of quality tunes. &#8216;Destiny Is Depressed&#8217; is well worth some coin from your pocket dear me you can have a CD for less than the price of two pints of bitter (unless you&#8217;re reading this in London) don&#8217;t be a dummy and check em out they&#8217;re good no make that very good!<\/p>\n<p>Buy The X-Ray Eyes <a href=\"https:\/\/thexrayeyes.bandcamp.com\/album\/destiny-is-depressed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheXRayEyes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: Dom Daley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The third album from these Yorkshire punks sees them dish up a really strong starting Eleven. From the front to the back they never offer anything other than their best and the sound is as you&#8217;d expect from a Cyanide Pill its got plenty of sharp edges great lyrics and loads of punchy tunes.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[258,3125,3126,1808,105,3102],"class_list":["post-7604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-cyanide-pills","tag-destiny-is-depressed","tag-garage-rockers","tag-new-music","tag-punk-n-roll","tag-the-x-ray-eyes","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7604"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7674,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions\/7674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}