Kadesh

Listing themselves as socially inept twenty-somethings you would not expecting much (I thought the singer was about 13 years old because of the high voice until I discovered the singer was actually a girl, and then it all fitted into place!) from the Cambridge fivesome other than even more socially inept music. It is my duty to say that the truth is far from that.

Despite the recordings being slightly ruddy and shoddy, Kadesh surpass this with some interesting ideas, riffs and vocal melodies, blurring lines between a few generic genres to make them something interesting. Although sounding sometimes like \'that-swedish-cheesy-metal-band-from-Sweden-with-that-fit-girl-singer\' and occasionally sounding like the songs have no sense of direction (possibly from trying to hard to incorporate many genre stereotypes?) Kadesh\'s debut E.P. makes an entertaining listen (especially Track 2 Dance of Lions) and in the future will no doubt make a good impression on the ever-morphing Cambridge scene of music (if no one else makes the same error as mistaking the lead singer for a 13 year old boy).

David Robson

P.S. The recurring concept of mistaking the lead singer for a prepubescent boy is no slur on the singers talents, but of my own ignorance :)