SIDE SCAN press reviews
“The band, led by singer Alex Kern, has created a brilliant debut album with Side Scan“
(Sonic Seducer 10/09)
“Newcomer of the month“
(Zillo, 10/09)
“Lyronian knows how to totally convince with its music“
(Zillo, 10/09)
“Modern, nostalgic, forceful and reflective at the same time, Side Scan issues the perfect invitation to dream and to dance. The charismatic lead singer’s voice adds the finishing polish to the seductive blend.”
(Sonic Seducer 10/09)
“The songs convince with their capturing melodies and successful changes in tempo.”
(Sonic Seducer 10/09)
“Side Scan sounds so professional, that it is hard to consider this a debut album. Well-known musical colleagues like Claus Larsen recognised the enormous potential of the talented newcomer quite early on.”
(Sonic Seducer 10/09)
“A band with great potential from which good things can be expected in the future. Already they play practically at the same level as established newcomers like Ashbury Heights”.
(Sonic Seducer 10/09)
“The album can be recommended to anyone who values good music with depth.”
(Orkus 10/09)
“With Side Scan Lyronian create a very successful symbiosis of driving electronic music and classical elements with tones that give you the “goose-bumps”, very expressive and with pleasant singing”. .“
(Orkus 10/09)
"Pop of the 80’s with great feeling. Lyronian also manages to compose some super catchy tunes”
(Gothic No. 65)
“Lyronian has achieved a masterpiece with Side Scan that is convincing all the way through. There has rarely been such a potent debut in the past few years.”
(www.DepecheMode.de)
“With Side Scan Lyronian delivers excellent compositions, which can completely convince.”
(www.DepecheMode.de)
“The album will become an entertaining listening experience that grows with every run. The individual songs are additionally refined by the striking voice of Alex, who shines in various pitches and so gives Side Scan its finishing polish”.
(www.DepecheMode.de)
“Lyronian, the brainchild of Alex Kern, who conjured up these congenial electronic crossovers between wave, Gothic, Techno and synth pop with his fingers, with Side Scan delivers something for which I have been waiting for a long time in the stagnating electro sector: a wonderful mixture that unites the best of it. The beautiful baritone voice reminds one slightly of the genius, Chris Corner. Cool! This doesn’t need a genre.”
(www.schwarze-news.de)
“Side Scan caresses the soul, spoils the ear canal and inspires one to dream. It is illegal to ignore this album. Welcome to the “Neverending Warmth“
(www.schwarze-news.de)
“A thousand ideas have become a superb work, stringent, coherent and just simply great. One cannot do anything but simply be enchanted with this pure beauty. One can let one’s soul dance, be comforted by the pleasant melancholy, discover thousands of wonderful details and move one’s dancing feet”
(www.schwarze-news.de)
“Lyronian spans with synthies and guitars an elegant bridge between pop, wave, industrial and Gothic with diverse intros. Hereby it reminds us not a little of Depeche Mode, which is really a great compliment for a newcomer.”
(www.GothicParadise.de)
“The work of a reviewer would be so pleasant if all debut albums were in the class of Lyronian’s first offering”.
(www.whiskey-soda.de)
“It is difficult to place the Lyronian sound into a fitting category. This musical span from 80’s wave via synth pop up to the modern dark-electro and future-pop tones. What in theory does not sound overly exciting, renders one practically speechless in practice. “
(www.whiskey-soda.de)
“So authentic and emotional. The Lyronian debut album Side Scan hit the scene like a bomb. In the last few years hardly any debut album has succeeded in so convincingly combining the intoxicating freshness of a newcomer with the song-writing professionalism of an old hand that on the finished product one hit just follows another.”
(www.whiskey-soda.de)
“Furnished with a whole sack of catchy tunes Alex caresses the listener from the first second and at the same time shows a phenomenal feeling for drama and depth of content.”
(www.whiskey-soda.de)
In phases Alex’s singing sounds so like the Depeche-Mode front man Dave Gahan that one really has to ask oneself whether this is a by-product of the pop-icons. This suspicion is soon crushed by the change to other pitches, because Alex then shows that he has a very wide voice range and manages to master goose-bump passages just as well as the highly wistful song lines”
(www.whiskey-soda.de)
“It is synth pop in its best form, as Alex Kern understands his handiwork”.
(www.jarwinbenadar.de)
“Hardly believable that this should be the first publication from this Combo. Highly recommended to all friends of melodical E-music with satisfying sounds, this is an extraordinarily successful debut”
(www.twilight-magazin.de)
"The Prussia Label has again demonstrated its feeling for the right knack. Side Scan is the first album from Alex Kern and this work should further promote the project and the label further on basis of its excellent production and also optical format”.
(www.re-flexion.de)
Appealing sounds, which do not give away the fact that Lyronian is getting right to the focus of the electro scene for the first time with this work, burn in the head of the listener and clearly show the potential that still exists in electro-pop in 2009. Each of the eleven titles on the normal edition gains itself deserved attention on a musical level with its innovative emphasis.”
(www.re-flexion.de)
“Lyronian had already been showered with laurels prior to the publication and ennobled by Johan van Roy and his words of praise, so its time to check whether Lyronian can do justice to these effusive eulogies. An indeed, side Scan is a brilliant, timeless and stylistically unbelievably multi-faceted electro-album that one is very seldom offered. Brilliant tunes, a voice with absolute discernible value, rhythmics that from time to time remind one of Diary of Dreams in their complexity, harsh-electro-elements, that are accentuated in their placement and above all song-writing that puts the bulk of new publications and newcomers in the shadows by a long way. I am not sure if the mastermind Alex Kern is really conscious of the class of this album that he has created with Side Scan. And this is just the debut album, which should raise the bar for future publications extremely high. Regardless of whether dance tracks or atmospheric ones, whether aggressive or melancholy, Lyronian masters the wide spectrum of feelings as though they had never done anything else and whoever does not snap at this chance, definitely cannot be helped any further. Hammer!”
(www.obliveon.de)
“To describe Lyronian, above all the project of its mastermind Alex Kern, with his debut Side Scan as a newcomer would be correct on the one hand, but on the other hand would also be some kind of understatement. The LP is accordingly mature and convincing. Memories of the 80’s and the Depeche-Mode sound of the time are sure to return to some when they listen to Side Scan, however, Lyronian’s debut offers more in variety, that it cannot always be made so simple.”
(www.nightshade.de)
Appealing melodies and a charismatically arresting multi-voice singing blends harmoniously into the overall concept.”
(www.nightshade.de)
Thus Side Scan remains a successful entry without fail and an absolute buy-recommendation for lovers of synthetic-pop.”
(www.nightshade.de)
“Lyronian is likely to quickly become more that a secret tip among friends of electronic sounds. Alex Kern’s voice captivates it s listeners from the first song onwards and in part continues to remind one of the great Dave Gahan.”
(www.darkmoments.de)
“As a full album Side Scan is catchy and it is not at all possible to single out any particular track.”
(www.darkmoments.de)
There is really only one thing one can say about Side Scan: all fans of electronic music must simply snap this up”
(www.darkmoments.de)
“It is the unofficial accolade for a young musician, when even experienced hacks like Leatherstrip amongst others wax lyrical about him, and even Claus Larsen, by profession the mastermind at Leather Strip, praised the young musician Alex Kern, alias Lyronian in the highest terms.”
(www.elektrauma.de)
“Lyronian, a blend of massive electronic beats, continually incorporated guitar and a very expressive, melancholy voce, lying somewhere between informatics, Apoptygma Berserk und Neuroticfish.”
(www.elektrauma.de)
“Furthermore Lyronian is one of the few glimpses of light in the electro-scene, which has been starved through monotony. The melodic waves are capable and filigree, without having a too top heavy effect. It is pop, but a very intelligent version. This makes Side Scan a real pleasure to listen to, which one cannot get away from. All fans of snthie pop right up to dark wave should immediately buy this genial CD! Tracks tips: EVERY SINGLE ONE.”
(www.elektrauma.de)
