reviews of eye.

Presently, this page is a sample of reviews from the years 1996-1998: when EYE were just releasing cassettes, custom-burnt CDrs and tracks on compilation CDs. For more recent (and even more glowing) reviews click the CD covers on the releases page.

"Absolutely thrilling . . . Exciting and different." Lord Litter, disc-jockey on the Europe-wide Radio Marabu, Germany, 1996.

"Bill Gibson's nightmares, if he'd watched too many X-files . . . be ready for anything with EYE, because listening to them may not be safe!" Aether Sanctum web-site, Perth, 1997.

". . I'm born again, I had no idea that anything THIS radical was going on down under... Very hi-tech sound here, not a didgeridoo in sight, some beautiful synth sounds, muchly fast tekbeats, Gary Numan on helium vocals, propaganda-laden politico lyrics. Tis manic teknoid indeed, very weird and quirky, these guys have a sense of humour ... some utterly amazing sound processing, has to be heard to be believed, trust me. Grungy guitar riff, just like metal, this is "the Vivisector", sounds like Robert Palmer on heavy tekdanz, incredible! ... something very psychotronic about all this... Clever and megainventive, so much in it... out of this world sounds... classy, really have a style all their own. Love them squidgy bass seqs, analogue sounds with much VCF travelling... No, this band are NOT a teknoid dance band at all, that's just the first element you come across... and it misleads you...completely! The most original band I've heard from Australia in all my life, brilliant!" Mick Magic, Music & Elsewhere Newsletter vol. 11 no.1, U.K., 1998.

"... tight and enormously detailed, rivalling the quality of established European goth/industrial acts. . . political pictures with large daubs of malicious humour and sounds that range from the ethereal to the coldly mechanical ... touches of 80s mod-rock merge with mesmeric drumming, tainted vocals and a clearly defined message to produce great results." Telia Nevile, Bands Music Action (B.M.A) magazine, Canberra, 1998.

"harsh cyber driven songs of a real different kind!. . . EYE is one of the most interesting/challenging bands from the "propaganda-laden-industrial-acid-grind" (as they define their music) scene that I know." Lord Litter, disc-jockey on the Europe-wide Radio Marabu, Germany, 1997.

"... These wild and subversive Australians, Eye, also have their own subversive information service. Eye succinctly describe their music as "propaganda-laden-cyber-neo-industrial-electronic-body-music". What we have on "Herd Under Social Hypnosis is noisy, abrasive, industrial dance akin to Nine Inch Nails and Skinny Puppy. Cut up and modified samples of propaganda are cleverly interwoven into their music creating an abrasive, industrial, frenzied and powerful media tool... eight tracks of truly original and innovative music. Highly recommended!" The Third Half, Scotland, 1997.

"... intelligent, confronting... harsh and powerful, with fascinating samples... it really does make Nine Inch Nails sound lame... a sly humour at work... an alternate perception of the world you live in, as well as some uncompromisingly industrial sounds..." Modern Movement, Brisbane, 1996.

"...They're very clever. Excellent programming . . . great noises and riffs..." Australian DIGITAL magazine, 1996.

"... startling on several levels... very good at what they do... the cassette "Herd Under Social Hypnosis" is characterised by a variety which is absent from too many commercially available electro-industrial releases. . . EYE's music is unashamedly ideological, but in a way which complements, rather than detracting from, the songs. Causes which are taken up on the cassette include distaste at modern citizens' willingness to abandon individual thought to the corporate machine and tv culture, and opposition to vivisection and society's reliance on prescription pharmaceuticals." Peter Stills (aka the office goth), Woroni, student newspaper of the Australian National University, 1996.

"... aggressive Electronic Body Music attacks.... professionally produced... the songs dwell inside your mind with their electronic tripping character, before they are spread all inside your body and soul!" Fight Amnesia zine, Germany, 1996.