Pavesi

Named after a dancehall in their home town of Donegal, Pavesi are a group of old mates who are having a second bloom in a band that were last together when at school (so clearly not callow youth...) but I have a real soft spot for that sort of, following your heart ethic. So, having come over all Seven Samurai, the guys have come up with a demo EP with three tracks. Now if you listen to the tracks blindly, you would might be forgiven for thinking that this was a young band on their first outing, the recordings sounding tentative an a little lacking in confidence and polish. But Pavesi's trump card is the really classy singing of the (superbly named) 'Duck Gallagher' which papers over any misgivings about I may have had about the often rudimentary backing. Making very pleasing-on-the-ear Eagles fronted by David Cassidy noises on 'Staring at the ground' to the more adventurous and almost Snow Patrol like 'Turnaround Year' where 'Duck' opens up a bit and displays some real quality and the chorus's become more anthemic.

If this was a band of young, wet-behind-the-ears teenagers I would be offering polite advice about them having room for improvement, having a good direction but to keep polishing up the playing and other educational stuff like that, but Pavesi aren't, they have got a good little sound going, and all I would say is; go enjoy yourselves gentlemen...
Review By Drumhead

RANK:*** 3 out of 6