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.

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Nicky Veness