Two of Waterfords best Indie bands have come together to release a double A sided single release worth it's wieght in Gold. The Deaf Animal Orchestra and Shane Barry and the Distractions may be very different in musical style and image ...but the double A release has found a perfect pairing in the songs called 'No Wit Can Save Me Now' and 'A Man Called Gerald'.
The Deaf Animals 'No Wit Can Save Me Now' is yet another in a long line of lyrical classics that weave through a miriad of softly sung and almost spoken words like a Shakespearean soliliquay of love for the 21st century ..and with their previous ep and single releases all being heavily laced with drama, thrills and the occaisional deadly dose of venom, their songs often play out with more drama than Macbeth,Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet combined.
Musicaly, they are a band that critics would find hard to pin a genre to and as 'No Wit' proves ,they can expertly glide in and out of any genre they choose at the drop of a hat. Classic indie,metal, pop,rock is sailed through at ease by these expert musical mariners and 'No Wit' ticks off yet another genre by easing it's way through an almost 50's Everly Brothers style and yet somehow surpasses it completely . Now I hate most slushy 50's styled music with a passion and always found the 50's pop scene to be fake and contrived - but the combination of searching lyrics that expose the desires and weaknesses of a certain four letter word many struggle with and a beautifull and surprisingly gentle melody must surely ammount to a 'must have' classic worthy of a number one in it's own right.
Add Shane Barry and The Distractions 'A Man Called Gerald' and you're now looking at a 'double number one'.
Another band of highly skilled musicians deliver an incredibly tight sound which could almost be compared to Dexy's Midnight Runners after a head on collision with Ian Dury's 'Blockheads', The Commitments (-without the in fighting and girls-)and The Blues Brothers tailor. An already upbeat tune spliced with an 'east end style on the ole Joanna', is punched up even higher through the roof by some excellent,intricate, rythum and lead guitar, only to be sent further on into orbit above the Diese with some rocket powered bursts of what must be the nations tightest brass section.
Barry's dualisticly serious yet (on the video at least-)somehow almost comic delivery style gives the track that little tweak of curious mirth to seep into the pores and tickle the hearts 'curios for more strings' with ease...and the slightest of searches throughout their MySpace will, as with the Deaf Animals', reveal an enormous wealth of musical riches that defy traditional 'genre' and 'image' placement by transcending any cliches through an incredibly gifted catologue of sound.
The special Vinyl release only for this double A collaberation is June 12th...so if you don't have a record player with stereo compatable stylus heads anymore then this single will be a perfect excuse to go out and buy one. Classic cover photography by Al Higgins adorns the new single released through Primate Records with more reasons to buy it found through the sound and video samples of both bands MySpace pages....
www.myspace.com/deafanimalorchestra and
www.myspace.com/shanebarryofficial 
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