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www.Subba-Cultcha.com - 18th Jan 2005

MY DEAF AUDIO - ARE THE NEW BLACK - Bivouac Label

EP Review

It has taken a string of EPs and a strong obsession with playing live, to get garage punk band My Deaf Audio on the climb to success. Beginning with 1999’s Bitter Pill, the band has released 4 EPs since and 2003 alone saw them play 130 UK shows. Having wowed the UK music press, they took their sound over to the continent, and having just returned to UK shores, we are about to be treated to latest EP “Are The New Black.”

Opener “Get Out, Right Now” tells it all, addictive choruses, razor sharp verses, sharp melodic vocals and sharp layered guitars.

“Turn Off The World” takes 60s rock and roll and mashes it together with 70s punk, if that isn’t enough, they don’t lose the modern garage punk sound and It becomes clear that My Deaf Audio are the masters of hooky choruses.

Simple, but meaningful is their motto, but on “Communication” they show they can go deeper, as political undertones begin to show, on one layer it can be seen as the breakdown of a relationship, but underneath, a dig at the breakdown of communication in politics, preferring to fight not talk.

“Maybe we should start a war”

“We're Convicted” shows the musicianship of the band, layered and urgent guitars, heavy bass lines, and thrashing drums, all razor-sharp and tighter than your jeans after Christmas.

There is something for everyone, whether your thing is 60s, 70s punk, garage rock, or Britpop, you won’t be able to resist the simple but clever infectious hooks, and will be singing and dancing in no time.

Katherine Tomlinson