It was followed by a double A-sided single, "Fast Girl / Beware Wolf", both tracks polled on the national radio station Triple J's Hottest 100 in 2005.
Trivic later recalled "this was a way of learning our individual instruments as we were always about starting our own band – it was just gunna take some time.
Two independent extended plays, Scalectrix (April 2000) and Means to an End were recorded and issued on cassette in 2000, where the former also appeared on CD.
[10] Upon Nassif's return in June 2001, the group signed with Redline Records, owned by fellow Perth rockers, Jebediah, and they supported that band on an Australian tour.
In October that year Juice Magazine named them as one of the next big things along with The Vines, Jet and The Datsuns.
[8] On 3 February that year, with Jedediah, they supported a gig by international headliners Jimmy Eat World at The Globe, Prahran East.
[7] They supported international visitors including Blink-182, Brand New,[12] Thursday, Dashboard Confessional (their lead singer, Chris Carrabba, insisted that they open for his group upon hearing Gyroscope's EP), Sparta, Saves the Day and The Get Up Kids.
Andrew Murfett of The Age felt it was "an assured release full of crunchy riffs and emotive lyrics.
"[7] FasterLouder's Josie9 felt that older tracks "like 'Doctor Doctor', 'Driving for the Storm' and newie 'Confidence in Confidentiality' are excellent indicators of the bands live sound, with contrasting heavy/soft guitars thanks to guitarist Zoran Trivic, trade off vocals/screams courtesy of singer/guitarist Dan Sanders and Brad Campbell (Bass/vox) and thumping drums from Rob Nassif".
[7] Sanders described difficulties while touring and trying to maintain relationships, but noted an advantage: "I could be away for seven weeks and write some of my better lyrics because I'm missing a girl or mates.
During the sessions, they filmed a music video for one side of the album's first single, "Fast Girl" (March 2006), in Death Valley.
This isn't just music... the band have grown and shifted a little since their last release... [they] have the knack of writing a good meaningful song with delicious pop hooks.
"[17] Bemused on Punknews.org website noted that Trombino had "[helped] achieve a fuller, more realized sound than on previous recordings" and the album "has the ability to gradually work its way into your mindset with a lyric or vocal delivery here and a guitar line there.
Following a successful tour of South Africa, Gyroscope recorded their third major label studio album, Breed Obsession, in Liverpool during mid-2007.
[1][22] Dave Eringa (Idlewild, Manic Street Preachers) produced the material while mixing occurred in London.
This was the same farm where Led Zeppelin's crop circle was made, which features on the cover of that group's Remasters compilation album (October 1990).
[22][26] Gyroscope performed at the Big Day Out festival, which toured Australia and New Zealand in late January and early February 2008.
[29][30] AllMusic's Stewart Mason found that they "shake off their always tenuous connection to punk and reveal themselves to be a mainstream pop/rock band with few musical aspirations further than a handful of FM radio hits" and summarised that it was "generically tasty, but full of meaningless empty calories.
[37][38] Following a national tour supporting The Living End, Gyroscope began writing for their fourth studio album, Cohesion.
They signed with Island Records Australia and from September 2009 Gil Norton (Pixies, Maxïmo Park, Foo Fighters) produced their sessions at Rockfield Studios, in Monmouth, Wales.
[13][39] Mike Allen at SputnikMusic described it as "straightforward rock... [it] is keen on its utilization of blistering riffs, incongruent dynamics, and Daniel Sanders' soaring clean vocals, all of which play an intricate role in creating the melting pot.
On Friday 13 September 2019 they released worldwide 3 tracks from this studio stint in the form of an EP, titled '4YRLV'.
Sanders and Campbell performed in a Nirvana tribute band, Nirvanarama, its other members were Chris Daymond (Jebediah) on guitar and Drew Goddard (Karnivool lead guitarist) on drums.
[54] The support act were Dead Glorious, a street punk group which includes Gyroscope guitarist, Trivic, together with Fergus Deasy (Little Birdy), Matt Pirga (The Reserves) and Matthew Radich (The Critics).
Bands they have played alongside include the Meat Puppets, Brant Bjork, the Hard-Ons, Förstöra.
Nassif described this venue as "a place where bands and musicians can hang out with friends, create amazing music and have fun.
Wanting to play these songs live, Sanders (vocals/guitar) enlisted old mates Mykal Deville (bass/vocals) and Drew Goddard (drums/vocals).
2018 saw Campbell, Sanders and Trivic build their own purpose built recording studio called The Skullery.
Nassif, as part of his ownership and management of The Hen House Rehearsal Studios, continues to update a section entitled "Ideas" on the business' website as of November 2012.
Such as running the Facebook pages, sourcing the merchandise designs, booking gigs and organising the rehearsal studio.