ALBUM REVIEW: SKYPILOT Deliver With New Album “The Affront”
SKYPILOT are a band from the centre of the universe. It is called Doagh (pronounced Doak by the way) in County Antrim. This quiet leafy village is the birth place of the band that has been round since 2002 and now they have delivered an 8 track album of intense grungey, sludgey heavy riffed up tuneage that can’t help but coax a dreary smile of enjoyment from your face.
Thundering off first is M.O.A.S.T. with pure riffage, headbanging rhythm and superb vocals that give you a good insight that you have purchased a classic of an album already.
Next up is SuperDuperNaut, a crazy name for an incredible bass driven track that chunders along with an intensity that will have you finding your head flailing up and down and feet stomping of their own volition. The whole rhythm just drives you along and just feels right to have it on loud in the car.
Then comes Nacho, a slower starting psychedelically infused track that still manages to keep a real heavy feel about it. The vocals are on point and fit snuggly into the heavy trippy track.
The Beautiful Cheese may remind you a bit of if Weezer went stoner sludge as it meanders along at a therapeutic pace. A beautiful track that just gradually builds to a crescendo.
Happy Helmet is joyously like a funky Black Sabbath and once more infused with heavy riffage and catchy harmonious stoner rhythms. A cracking track.
Then comes Letters to Jemima, a glorious Black Sabbath like tune that just carries you right through to the end with its catchy build up and sweeping rhythms and easy swaying heavy riffs.
The penultimate track is Front End Gone and it starts slow and low until it kicks you in the face as the full band thump in with another catchy stoner delivery. Its very grunge like with a reminiscence of Nirvana about it.
Finally comes 5 Movements, with what now seems to be a trademark build up of a track. It really lulls you until the whole band kicks in and once more along with the vocals you are carried of in a heavy haze that demands you kick off your worries and headbang your heart out.
The Affront is a superb album that has hints of sludge, stoner and grunge all mixed together in the right balance to taste sweet and heavy all at the same time. It is eight tracks of incredible professional delivery of heavy but accessible music that is perfect to either relax to or stomp around the house to. Though it is always better to hear this tight three piece live.
Dave, Gareth and Garry should be rightly proud of what they have delivered and you need to have this in your library. Go. Go on. Buy it now.
Sky Pilot The Affront
- M.O.A.S.T.
- SuperDuperNaut
- Nacho
- The Beautiful Cheese
- Happy helmet
- Letters to Jemima
- Front End Gone
- 5 Movements
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Born in 2003, SKYPILOT have been following their own distinct path through the past 17 yrs. Drawing their influences from a wide and varied collection of bands and genres Skypilot simply play what feels right, making them notoriously hard to pigeon hole into any one area of the rock music spectrum. This approach has served them well so far. Numerous tours have come and gone with bands such as End Of Level Boss, Firebird, Gentlemen’s Pistols and Suns of Thunder. Full UK tours with fellow NI band Stand-Up Guy saw Skypilot cement their reputation on the mainland and win new fans wherever they played. More high profile gigs followed with the like of Brant Bjork and the Bros, Planet of Zeus and the mighty Corrosion Of Conformity, shows that boosted the bands profile and proved SKYPILOT are comfortable in the big venues as well as the regular club stages.
With 4 EP’s and a full length debut album under their belt, SKYPILOT showed no signs of slowing down. 2017 saw them play extensively in support of their 4 tracker, “EP4”. Not content to rest on their laurels, 2019 sees the release of the band’s second full-length album, entitled “The Affront” which dropped on Friday 7th June worldwide on CD, and digitally via Spotify, Amazon, Deezer, iTunes and all digital formats.
