You may remember rock nyc reviewing Manchester, England’s Deaf FM a couple of years ago, they had a fine EP Crashed Cars And Superstars and a sound borderline metal on “My Poison”. I liked it a lot, it had the intuition of art with the hardboiled utilitarianism of metal.
Even then I felt they would do much better in the States where this hard riffing stuff goes down very well. Watching a video of a live performance of “My Poison” from earlier this year, it is very apparent that the band is not Status Quo. Frontwoman Cherry Valentine is a Goth metal everygirl with a youthful force with and the assurance you need to pull it off, and the band is tight and loud and ready for prime time, they’re a hot, blue collar rough and tumble professional outfit, who play on the riff over and over again. .
The current single “Skylight” has come to my attention just as I’ve spent the week writing about War On Women’s new album, another band with a hard rock mainstream sound and a badass lead singer. “Skylight”is a hard rock ballad in the verses which explodes into an anthemic instrumental with a sterling guitar solo on the break and a kitchen sink expanded power source chorus.I prefer it to Adele’s “Skyfall” for a Bond movie, it is still and then explodes, still again and shatters through at the end,
If I was Deaf FM, I get themselves onto some metal tour of the States and wait for the Us youth to get a load of them
Grade B+
