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Damn (The Music) is one of those songs with the power to transform, a belter of a tune that could just get this band, only born at the start of the year, a leg-up towards the big time. They didn鈥檛 quite pull off the potency of it live, but then this was the first time the whole band had stepped on a stage together.
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It鈥檇 be easy to look on them as a new Kasabian, but there鈥檚 a depth to their tunes that shows more originality. If they must be compared, then they are more of a Kasabian heading out towards Led Zeppelin than the existing band, who seem hell-bent on being the new Primal Scream.
 | | Smith 6079 (photo: Andy Stubbs) |
The sound is still raw with big, big drums underpinning every tune, and the set occasionally dropped into chaos and technical problems. The venue doesn鈥檛 help. Levels were all over the place, with the bass free-wheeling between weedy and eye-bleeding and the vocals dropping from the front to the back of the mix on several occasions. Yet there was something incendiary in their performance, something electrifying that was too early to fit into the annual trawl that is In The City, too late to be part of the tail-end of the summer, and too exciting for the indifference of a chilly Wednesday night. Smith 6079 have something more than the sum of their parts. Unlike their namesake, their future lies in a brighter place than Room 101. | 
