CAYTO were turning heads round here with the brain-scouring intensity and magpie eclecticism of their magnificent debut album "Your Atoms Are Laughing" early in 2003, so it's good to discover - after a hiatus and a change of label - that they've lost none of the venom, intelligence and inspiration in the meantime.
It's ridiculous to view "Morning" as a 'comeback', but it IS a forceful reminder of Cayto's widescreen ambition, invention and sheer power. Starting out tricksy and brooding, it encompasses big, sweeping grand piano, a drifting classical aspiration and the kind of cavernous execution that only the likes of Muse and Oceansize can pull off. The fact it's offset by a slurringly malevolent vocal from Paul Henry and spot-on production from Arab Strap/ Franz Ferdinand producer Geoff Allan hardly hinders its' chances either. Excellent, in a word.
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B-side "Warning" pulls off a typical Cayto KO. After the drifting grandiosity of "Morning," this is the cold bucket of water in the face treatment to bring us rapidly back down to earth. Sure, it's not as mental as "Archimedes" from the debut, but it's still entirely full-on and rocks like a critter from the wrong side o' the blanket. All of which only induces you to succumb to the bugger again.
Proffering a silken handshake, a table at the best restaurant and then an unceremonious kicking behind the gasworks, these two tracks are Cayto at their brilliantly unpredictable best. Can't wait for that second album.
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