Crave (Cyclefly album) explained

Crave
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Cyclefly
Cover:	Cyclefly_Crave.jpg
Recorded:	2000 at Parkage Studios (East Sussex, England) 2001 at Totally Wired (Dublin, Ireland)
Label:	Radioactive Records MCA Records
Producer:	Bill Appleberry/Tobias Miller Colin Richardson
Prev Title:	Generation Sap
Prev Year:	1999

Crave is the second album from the band Cyclefly, released on 8 April 2002.

The album, originally called Tales from the Fish Bowl, had a vote by fans to decide the album art.^[1]

Reception

Andy Capper wrote an astonishingly scathing one-star review of the album in NME, decrying it as "a turgid, tuneless, completely crass piece of mix and match nu-metal" and describing the vocals as "whiny and useless", while also referring to fans of the nu metal genre as "wankers" and attacking them for being allegedly unintelligent and "easy to swindle".^[2]

A far less derisive review came from Harry Guerin, speaking from RTÉ, who highlighted the acoustic content of the record over the heavier material and expressed optimism in the band's future endeavours: "Crave is very much a case of a band with a work in progress sign hanging over their heads".^[3]

Greg Leos of Unearthed gave the album a positive review, stating that it "has enough texture, power and hunger to leave listeners wanting more".^[4]

Track listing

Outtakes

• "Five Years" (David Bowie cover) - 6:03 (Blockbuster: A 70's Glitter Glam Rock Experience compilation)
• "Small Idols" - 3:04 (No Stress single)
• "Karma Killer (Bill Appleberry Mix)" - 2:47 (Released on the band's MySpace page)
• "Crave (Sacha Puttnam & Ciaran O'Shea Remix)" - 4:00 (Released on the band's MySpace page)
• "Middle Class" - 4:07 (Unreleased)
• "Sufficate" (Unreleased)
• "World Idiot" (Unreleased)
• "Wormholes" - 3:49 (Unreleased)
• "Angelgrace" (Unreleased)
• "Slaves To The Sunshine" (Unreleased)
• "Revolver" - 3:14 (Unreleased)
• "Tranquillity" (Unreleased)
• "A Perfect Feeling" (Unreleased)

Personnel

Cyclefly

• Declan O'Shea - vocals, arrangement
• Ciaran O'Shea - guitar, arrangement
• NoNo Presta - guitar, arrangement
• Christian Montagne - bass, arrangement
• Jean-Michel Cavallo - drums, arrangement

Additional musicians

• Chester Bennington - vocals (track 2)
• Sacha Puttnam - strings, organ (track 11), arrangement (tracks 2, 7)

Technical personnel

• Robert Flynt - photography
• Sasha Jankovic - engineer
• Alan Sanderson - engineer
• Ian Blanch - engineer
• Jeff Rothschild - engineer
• Ciaran O'Shea - programming
• David Bianco - mixing
• Bill Appleberry - producer (tracks 1, 4, 5), engineer
• Colin Richardson - producer
• Tobias Miller - producer (tracks 1, 4, 5), engineer

Release history

Region	Date
United Kingdom
United States

External links

• Cyclefly.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: [//cyclefly.com/images/journal/journal36.html Internet Archive Wayback Machine ]. Web.archive.org . 2001-04-11 . 2012-02-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20010411183129/http://cyclefly.com/images/journal/journal36.html . April 11, 2001.
2. https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-nme-6278-330720
3. https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/music-reviews/2002/0411/448680-cyclefly/
4. https://unearthed.com/album-review/cyclefly-crave-cd-review/