Cicada: Wicked Dream 7"

Ever wonder what it feels like to listen to a nightmare?9 tracks of crazed, unrelenting sonic power. Demented and distorted guitar rhythms screech over guttural vocal pulsations, driven by a haunting barrage of low end mayhem. The first vinyl offering from CICADA exposes the sound of a thousand bad dreams. A sinister yet brilliant manifestation of wicked minds... Our take: Jeff Young has already proclaimed Cicada the best hardcore band in America, and who am I to argue? For me, Cicada stands head and shoulders above so many contemporary bands because they’re so in tune with the ugliest, weirdest, most underground aspects of classic hardcore punk while still determinedly progressive, dead-set on pushing the limits of their own sound and the genre as a whole. Wicked Dream is crammed with ideas, and while five of its nine songs don’t even reach the one-minute mark, each one feels like it contains a symphony worth of music. Cicada doesn’t give ideas room to breathe and they don’t milk riff