You know how some bands can say as much with the spaces they leave between the notes as the ones they actually play? Yeah, Sumo Cyco are not one of those. From start to finish, Initiation is a breathless blur of energy and action, bursting to its varicoloured seams with metallic riffs, quick-stepping dance grooves, huge pop-tinged hooks and electronic bloops and bleeps. The lyrics to Bystander drip with the frustration and ennui of successive lockdowns, but musically it sounds like all the pent-up energy of the past year has been packed into four minutes of barely controlled chaos. When their ska leanings show on Bad News and Run With The Giants they sound a bit like early-era No Doubt given a cyberpunk makeover. Singer Skye ‘Sever’ Sweetnam has a touch of the Gwe...