This is a relatively new Dundee rock band with their debut EP – listen!! - you will be surprised.... The CD opens with “Never” and, far from what you might expect a rock band to do on the opening track of a debut EP, instead of flying out with all guns blazing, they come at you with this rhythmic swagger as initial guitar riffing surges in above driving drumming and deep bass, and you half expect Robert Plant to come in any minute. That he doesn't – and that the female vocalist Carolyn O'Neill does – works an absolute treat. In she comes with this strong, mid-range vocal intensity that, in anyone else's hands, I'd be saying “too dry” or “needs more harmonies”, but in this case just soars like an eagle to magnificent degree as she swoops onto the verses and lifts off the choruses with amazing flow and feeling. A bit like Zara from Isis, you get the feeling that if she sang this without the band there at all, you'd still be riveted to the spot. As it is the band provides the crunching rhythms as this wave of guitar swells, surges and powers out behind the towering vocal as this anthemic epic of a track unfolds. Into a scorching guitar break, the bluesy swagger of the backdrop continues unabated, before it leaves behind the bass pounding delicately and the drumming more restrained, as the vocal slips and slides in the foreground, only for the instrumental intensity to return as the track flies ever onwards to justify every second of its near six minute length. With a cry of “1-2-3-4”, the band launch into “Makin' It Happen” as Kenny Hutchinson's guitar riff scythes through and the rhythm section of Carrie Brown on bass and Mike Cameron on drums crash and drive on a hot rockin' number where Carolyn's vocal is let loose to provide a snarling, sneering delivery with power and strength, very much “Classic Rock” styled, a distinct seventies influence, a brief but red hot guitar break and just a good, solid rocker of a song. Just short of four minutes, “As One” rolls along with added vocals from Mike and what amounts to the most commercial song on the EP so far, flares into life with a really great lyric deliverde both solo and accompanied from Carolyn who really strides out at the top of her mid-range style, the verses fluing into a memorable chorus, dropping back down a couple of times to showcase the more emotive, ringing guitar work from Kenny before firing up into another searing heat break as the rhythm section propel it. The song returns, fuller than before and riding on a heady wave of vocal and guitar. The EP ends with the five and a half minute “Broken Promises” as we return to the more anthemic style of the opener, only here starting with a whisper before opening out into this slightly more urgent pace as Carolyn's vocal is filled to the brim with passion as she unleashes a really strong song that positively flies upwards and seriously lifts off. There's no particular hook or chorus yet you're carried along by it all the same as bursts of lead guitar fire up while the rhythm section provide a really varied undercurrent according to the mood and pace of the song. It's heady stuff once more with that vocal soaring out on a tidal wave of emotion. Overall, it's strong stuff – the vocal on its own is huge and you can but imagine the power that this band would have, unleashed in a studio where they could do multi-tracks, but for now, for a debut EP, this is highly recommended to all Classic Rock fans.