Icarus EP

For an EP of B-sides and remixes, it's quite good. Just don't expect a gross improvement in songwriting, since that's not its purpose. At least, it's a convenient way to have the debut's bonus tracks in physical format for those of us outside of the UK and the sphere of iTunes' digital influence.The instrumental opening song is decent, but it's too short to really build to much. "Eureka" is possibly their most Meshuggah-ish song yet, in instrumentation and vocals. This is, depending on your opinion, either very good or bad. Its silly outro brings to mind Attack Attack! in its inappropriateness."Icarus Lives," with its dirty guitar opening and solo break reminiscent of Cynic, is nice to have without the annoying "Ragtime Dandies" tacked on the end from the album version. Amusing as it was the first time, it became quickly tiresome and ruined the flow of the otherwise excellent debut. The new recording of "Icarus Lives" has more natural sounding clean vocals and fuller harsh vocals than the original, both of which are definite improvements. The entrance of the vocals are also more dynamic. As far as the remixes are concerned, the Bulbous remix fails miserably, repeating "I'm neither angel nor a demon spawn" until it becomes tiresome, completely stripping from it the awesome contrast that should follow in harsh vocals. The Zedd and Petey G remixes use a lot of electronica and dub-step to re-invision the song, and they pull it off pretty well."Jetpacks Was Yes" is treated with some lyrical changes/additions near the end and also benefits from the more natural sounding clean vocals of Spencer Sotelo. Regarding the DVD, it's all very well to have their two music videos, but the necessity is rather diminished due to YouTube. The brief Making of Icarus is interesting - it's nice to see a little bit of the band's personality. We get the advice "don't smoke cigarettes," so they're obviously good guys.Now we can look forward to their upcoming two albums in 2012. At this rate, they might become even more prolific than Scar Symmetry.3.5/5

If you're like me, and were completely blown way by Periphery's self-titled debut album, then you're hungry for more. The 'Icarus EP' release offers a collection of previously unofficially released songs from the 'Bulb' Misha Mansoor side project, and redone songs from their debut. In both cases, the songs feature at least newly recorded vocals, if not completely new instrumentation (i.e. Jetpacks Was Yes! V2.0). There are also 3 remixes on this release as well, of the song Icarus Lives.The end result is a collection of songs that you may have heard before, but are all improved upon. 'Frak the Gods' alone is absolutely mind blowing, and makes this well worth the price of admission. The rest of the songs are tweaked upon beyond their original compositions, or like Frak the Gods, feature vocals since prior versions were just instrumental tracks.Highly recommended to sate the appetite of any Periphery fan until their next full release.

For an EP, this is great. It has enough new material to make it worth the low price and enough alternate material to make it fulfilling as a whole package. After all, it's an EP. Most EPs have 5 songs. Icarus EP has 9. 3 are remixes, 1 is the original song. That leaves 5. Jetpacks Was Yes v2.0 is a re-imagining, and a good one at that, and the other 4 are all new originals. For less than $10, no Periphery fan can really complain.

This is SUCH an incredible compilation of sounds from "Periphery" if "Eureka" or especially "Captain On" would had been on "Periphery" the album would had been SO much better. "Jetpacks Was Yes V2.0" is SO much better than the original as is "Icarus Lives!, Spencer just sounds better as do the rest of the band. The remixes prevent me from giving "Icarus" five stars, while I do love them, especially Zedd's remix, I would had rather had three more original songs.

I love Periphery, although I'm not a huge fan of techno or dubstep or anything like that--so while I very much enjoy their music I only enjoyed a couple of the included remixes. A remix is a remix though, I really only dislike one of the songs...Oh, Eureka! was a huge plus though. I really love the Rough Clip Vocals track from the earlier album and this version is excellent. Formidable vocals.

Periphery's remixed a few of their songs from their first album, plus a couple that are new. It's a different take on some of the songs from the first record. Recommended if you're a fan and want to hear something different mixed in with the originals.

Excellent product

it's okay

As usual, Periphery really pull it out of the bag with this EP. Opener 'New Groove' has all the polyrhythmic, jittery guitar that Misha Mansoor has become known for, and will satisfy any self-proclaimed 'Djenthead', whilst the second new track on the EP, 'Frak The Gods' sends the listener into a rip-roaring ride of double bass blasts and heavy down-tuned 7 strings, which will turn heads from even the most sceptical of fans. The new re-recordings of 'Jetpacks Was Yes!' and 'Icarus Lives!' are fresher and more well-produced than the original album versions, and for any of you who enjoy the odd electronic, the 'Icarus Lives!' remixes will certainly satisfy your needs! Finishing the EP is two more new tracks, 'Captain On' and 'Eureka!', which, whilst in my view not as powerful as 'New Groove' and 'Frak The Gods', more than meet the expectations of Periphery's typical songwriting. Awesome EP.

Periphery is so diversed . Best band

Great EP. Love some of the heavy tunes that Periphery jammed out on this album.

Tempi di consegna lunghi ma specificati e comunque album ricevuto entro i termini specificati.Perfetto, venditore consigliatissimo, oggetto impeccabile +++++