The New Eves - The New Eve Is Rising (Album Review)
Friday, 08 August 2025
Written by Laura Mills
Photo: Katie Silvester
The New Eves’ debut has several strings to its bow, from relentless rock songs to supernatural rituals, and the fact that they can’t be pinned down into one style has become the Brighton band’s USP. Reflecting that, ‘The New Eve is Rising’ offers a series of fresh takes on how their music should be perceived, but it’s not without its faults.
The album opens The New Eve, a transcendent rite that casts listeners back centuries, to an era where superstition was a prominent and integral part of society. That’s followed by the first song proper, Highway Man, which begins with controlled drums, undulating bass and a needling guitar.
Accented by strings, the riff transforms into something repetitive and gritty, flipping the focus of Alfred Noyes’ 1906 ballad while underlining the band’s own knack for storytelling, which is very strong throughout.
Cow Song, though, brings up the one real drawback to ‘The New Eve is Rising’ — the quartet’s approach to vocals. Musically, there’s a diverse, brilliant package on offer, but the nasal, cutting interplay of their voices is really quite jarring at times. One wonders if it might prove a stumbling block given everything appears theirs for the taking in other respects.
There are standout tracks studded throughout — notably Circles, a high-energy rock hit, and the genre-blending Rivers Run Red — but the lingering feeling is that ‘The New Eve is Rising’ doesn’t deliver all it should.
The New Eves Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows:
Mon September 15 2025 - BIRMINGHAM Hare And Hounds
Tue September 16 2025 - LEEDS Hyde Park Book Club
Thu September 18 2025 - GLASGOW Barrowland
Sat September 20 2025 - GATESHEAD Glasshouse
Mon September 22 2025 - BRISTOL Beacon
Wed September 24 2025 - CAMBRIDGE Corn exchange
Sat September 27 2025 - MANCHESTER Castle Hotel
Fri October 03 2025 - BRISTOL Old England
Tue October 07 2025 - LONDON Hoxton Hall
Thu October 09 2025 - BRIGHTON Concorde 2
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