Jesus
single 'Brand New'
Relative unknowns Brand
New are looking to raise
their profile in the UK
and having played two
mini-tours in 2007
already, they give us
the first single off
their new (third) album
The Devil and God are
Raging Inside Me. The
appropriately named
Jesus is definitely what
you’d call a slow burner
– so slow in fact that
you start to wonder if
it’s ever going to grab
you! It’s pleasant
enough but the plodding
melody is so repetitive
that it’s in danger of
making you nod off to
sleep and the lyrics are
so hard to make out
through all the mumbling
that it’s really hard to
engage with the song.
Brand New are confirmed
to play at Reading and
Leeds this summer, and
they’ll need to do
better than this to win
over such a demanding
crowd.
www.myspace.com/brandnew
www.fightoffyourdemons.com
Nicky Veness