Cyclamatic rolls out its second recording of 'old school' music
RockKansas.com
Cyclamatic is gimmick-free.
No big image to saw into the audience's ears and eyeballs, or some cosmic Marilyn Manson theme to intertwine the songs.
As the Kansas City area band's bassist Lin Buck explains, it's just "strong melody-driven, meat and potatoes rock and roll."
"I wouldn't say anything really bugs me about gimmick-driven bands," Buck said. (The band's website is a bit more bold: "any artist seen on MTV should not receive a Grammy but a firing squad")
"I think everyone has the right to express themselves as they would be. Cyclamatic just happens to be driven by the music itself. It's, for a lack of a better word, old school.'
Singer/guitarist Randy McKnight elaborates on how they keep their music 'old school' power-pop.
"A lot of bands seem to write around a guitar hook or riff," McKnight said, "and we write more around the melody and make the music fit the melody."
Now that they have their style of power-pop down on plastic, the members of Cyclamatic are looking for different avenues to get it into the hands of the fans.
"We're sending the CD out and we're talking to a few labels, so that's kind of still in the air."
While the band waits out the infamous 'nibbles' with which labels like to taunt the unsigned artists, fans can pick up the CD at local shows.
The band says the local scene has been good to them, playing numerous high-profile establishments such as Davey's Uptown and the Hurricane in KC.
However, recently the scene has become overrun with people that want to go out to hear a different kind of music -- music that isn't played live.
"A lot more people go out to hear the dance music," said Frank Yeager, drummer.
"They say that everything comes around full circle. Hopefully it'll do that again where things will come around and people will want to go out and see live music again."
He said Cyclamatic isn't going to change its routine for the nightlife's flavor of the month. They intend to keep rocking right through the DJ revolution. (To quote again from their website: "The band knows they are a bunch of tight assed boys from the Midwest and they don't [rap] even though it's fashionable).
"We do what we do," Yeager said, "and hope that people like it."
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