“Manchester five piece, who are meatier than Kasabian, release cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s The Sound Of Silence”. Such a headline would make you have a listen but unfortunately it turns out a bit tame. Smith 6079 really fail to put their own mark on this well known Learn Guitar textbook standard. A plodding drum track sits behind a slightly moody rendition and that’s really it. Somehow and somewhere I can hear Ian Gillan in the vocals (no bad thing) but he would have grabbed this song by the throat and Smith 6079 merely tickles the chin. ‘Here Again’ slightly raises the temperature but a fairly mundane repeating riff does not do enough to satisfy the empty feeling from the first A side. An opportunity missed.
