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IKON: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere Ends LP/CD Dark Vinyl

IKON: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere Ends     LP/CD   Dark Vinyl This is a re-issue of this Melbourne based bands’ 2014 album of the same name, with some added bonus tracks; no matter though, as I didn’t hear it the first time around. I have heard a few tracks by this Australian four-piece over the years, but they […]

IKON: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere Ends     LP/CD   Dark Vinyl

This is a re-issue of this Melbourne based bands’ 2014 album of the same name, with some added bonus tracks; no matter though, as I didn’t hear it the first time around.

I have heard a few tracks by this Australian four-piece over the years, but they never really hit the mark for me.  Whilst banding about terminology such as ‘Post-Punk’ and artists such as Joy Division; simply put, they sound just like a Gothic Rock band, plain and simple, nothing more, with more in common with the Bolshoi than anyone else; with the exception that Tanner & Co deserved more acclaim than the cards they were actually dealt.

Whilst knowing their instruments and having a key sense of verse, chorus, verse, alongside a web of spangle driven guitars; Ikon never really set me alight, even when I was a lot younger and appreciated clubs that smelled of patchouli oil and clove cigarettes.

I am still sure they have a massive following and part of me can see why.  They do everything they do well; but have always been a band that plays by the numbers, with nothing really special to latch onto; and in 2017, they bring even less to the table of any relevance.

6.5/10

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