It is a rare expirience to be completely blown away by an entire album nowadays, more often than not there is some killer but also some filler… This album is the exception. Every single song on this album is …..brilliant. I had seen HYTE play on more than one occasion and had always been amazed by the musicianship that all three of the guys display, it’s very hard to rip your eyes from Grant’s fret board, lord knows you can’t focus on his fingers. Sticca, with drums set low and wide jumping off his stool, making sure everyone in a six kay radius knows he’s playing and Chace’s bass stitching the whole thing together, it is truly a sight to behold. It wasn’t however, untill I’d had the time to sit and listen to HYTE’s debut, self titiled release, that I really understood what I was dealing with. These guys are the best thing to happen in the Perth music scene since…. forever.
You know when you can’t be bothered listening to some songs on an album and so you skip through to the good ones, with this release, I had the opposite problem. I’d keep going back and re-listening to the last song thinking that it can’t have been a good as I thought. I was always wrong, it was. It took me six attempts to make it to the end, and then it had to start again, and again.
These guys are the next Silverchair, the next Wolfmother, the next band you should see while it doesn’t cost $150 for the back row.
The lyrics are smart and engaging, the bass is beautiful and bold, the drumming is perfect and the guitar sends shivers down my spine every single listen. Vocally, Grant sounds like Chris Cornell one minute then Daniel Johns the next, all the while remaining amazingly original. Overall it’s a release so mature in it ‘s sound it begs belief that it’s from a Fremanlte based band with a couple of hundred facebook likes. If these guys don’t make it, there’s something wrong with this whole country
Please go see this band, buy their album and be part of history. There is literally no aspect of you life that won’t be improved by having a bit of HYTE in you life.
By Ryan Treby
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