Rumours of Brit-rock’s demise are greatly exaggerated – Slaves To Gravity are here to prove it. Their latest single “Meantime” is three and a half minutes of epic guitar-driven music that breathes fresh life into a classic formula.
Opening up with a simple filtered guitar line that wouldn’t sound out of place in an Audioslave number, the song barrels into rolling drums and chunky chord work before Tommy Gleeson’s vocals take off and soar above it all. There’s a refreshing lack of tough-guy posturing – Gleeson doesn’t sound like a man who makes compromises, but he’s no fist-shaker – and the music matches the attitude, blending sturdy riffs with a chorus to kill for.
This is everything that radio-friendly rock should be – hook-laden and catchy yet proudly independent, a hymn to defiance. If Slaves To Gravity can produce a full album of this chart-bothering quality, we’ll have a real contender on our hands.
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