them. Maybe kids today will light
up their cell phones when Vendet-
ta Rose play May 3 at The Brighton
Bar with Wasting Moonlight.
There they’ll also hear the Guns
N’ Roses-like “Over and Under,” a
battle against an addicted abus-
er, and the EP’s closer “Human
Glass,” which features particularly
fine phrasing by Demello that
weaves in and out of tasty guitar
and piano solos. In a summation
of the themes of the EP, that tune
is about winning and losing in life
and the price you pay to play.
The New Black were emerging
as a national act from Middlesex
County when a 2009 car accident
left guitarist Gabriel Hurley blind.
But you never would know that
from his playing on the trium-
phant new album, Coming Home,
the closing title track of which is a
gorgeous acoustic guitar duet be-
tween Hurley and Daniel Downing
within an otherwise painful look at
the depression and loneliness left
by a dearly departed loved one.
Throughout Coming Home, The
New Black remind me of the me-
Watch a video for “Over and Under” by Vendetta Rose
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