The New Eves – “Highway Man”

The New Eves have shown up here a few times, working through post-punk and folk on singles from Slow Dance. The band bumps up to new label Transgressive this week with news of a new single, “Highway Man,” and hopefully a gateway to a proper full length. The new single finds the band squarely in the post-punk camp, channeling the darkness of Alfred Noyes’ 1906 romantic poem into a caustic vision that wraps its wrists in the urgency of Patti and Siouxsie, with a dose of John Cale for good measure. The song pounds in the listeners’ ears, propelled by anxious drums, clamorous strums, and frayed cello. Too many have tried to snag the post-punk yoke with a dour expression and a few mangled guitar chords, but The New Eves are soaked in the original spirit; gothic and cathartic, churning disillusion into damaged desire. The band hasn’t missed with a single, and here’s hoping there’s much more where this came from.

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