Album Review: The New Eve Is Rising by The New Eves

Referencing moments in music history, the Brighton four-piece’s debut convincingly twists them to its singular path Finding bands that sound original is one of the most exciting things about music, particularly when so often it seems like everything has been done to death. Brighton-based four-piece The New Eves are in a strange position, in that their music seems to relate to a host of other bands and musicians and genres, yet they don’t really sound like anybody else. On their debut album The New Eve Is Rising, opening track The New Eve wastes no time in setting out what they’re all about.

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One of the perennial problems when recommending The New Eves to people is where to place their music. After all, it's kind of adjacent to folk - while sounding nothing like it. It's sort of post-punk in places, but remaining completely separate to that sound. You could compare them to the theatrics of Kate Bush, but the two don't crossover in any way.

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It's not often that you can say with any authority that a new band or artist truly have no comparable contemporaries, but, since emerging onto the scene in 2023, Brighton-based quartet The New Eves have stood as the sole inhabitants of their ever-intriguing niche. Standing - or, more likely, sitting astride a horse - at the crossroads between ancient folk traditions and experimental rock stylings, the band are an emphatically multi-modal proposition, bringing to mind The Wicker Man and the work of Angela Carter as much as they do Patti Smith, The Slits, or The Velvet Underground. And as opening statements go, you can't get much more evocative than this here debut.

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