Progressive psychedelic rock quintet Cyanna Mercury paint with broad strokes on their new album Archetypes. Lead singer Spyreas Sid has enough power to reach the back rows on a huge festival, but Nick Sid takes home the award for best musician in this Athens, Greece based band. He can make his instrument whisper and holler, invoke the acoustics of a huge cathedral or a sweaty blues club,. The band as a whole sounds massive and overpowering, while the lyrics deal with doom, loss and classic mythology, with songs about Hermes, Apollo and Lilith.
Arcehtypes is a black-and-white album - no time for the in between greys. When a woman does them wrong, she is Snake and Horse Dark As Night is creature from a next level nightmare. After all the horrors, the closing tracks here Will Be A Time comes as a misplaced Hollywood ending straight out of nowhere.
