They want to be Buckcherry or latter day Papa Roach but, realisically, Silverjet are not that dirty - certainly not enough to compete with the big boys, but there is enough here to suggest that they can more than hold their own. With swagger aplenty, they slip into the rock 'n' roll with ease and their North England roots are not quite so easy to see as you'd think.

'Dead Romance' kicks it all off and it's Buckcherry-esque whilst retaining a slight blues edge - think The Quireboys having lunch at the Whiskey whilst watching Pretty Boy Floyd (stranger things have happened). 'End Of The Day' starts off sounding uncannily like the Smashing Pumpkins song 'Tonight' before developing into a mellow, building song that displays that they're not just full-out rock. 'Enemy' chugs out of the gates with a more twisted sleaze guitar sound but once more they take the foot off the gas before they get too loose and hard. 'Machine' is undoubtably my favourite track on here; it's more throttle, less care and the head nodding approval rating gets higher with every lick. 'Top Side' and 'Red Alert' both fall into this catagory and it does seem as though they play better on the more high tempo songs. 'What It Takes' is another song that does the trick - it's not the most original but then this genre isn't exactly known for pushing back the boundaries.
 
All the songs on this album are pretty good (you can check them out for yourselves for FREE via the band's website below) - they certainly have the hooks, the choruses and the ability to carry it all off yet you do get the feeling that it's nothing you haven't heard before and there's nothing wrong with that in itself, but just don't go thinking they're the latest new big hope for sleaze fans. If you've already been impressed with the likes of The Treatment, Million $ Reload, Velvet Star or Falling Red then you'd be silly not to be getting on the coat tails of this bunch because they can match them easily.
 
Maybe it's in the production because I'm sure they would sound less tinny and more sleazetastically dirty live than they do here - a tweak of a few knobs maybe could have helped them truly rip into us with more vigour. I'm certainly going to try my best to catch this lot live because I get the feeling that this album hasn't really done them the justice they deserve.
 
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