The Vincent Black Shadow - Fears In The Water

The first 30 seconds of The Vincent Black Shadow's debut single Fears In The Water are positive enough. An angrier DEVO, as sung by Gwen Stefani, anybody? Sadly, those 30 seconds are as good as it gets and don't last nearly long enough. Thereafter, everything regresses into the cabaret and innuendo of girl-fronted nu-metal, reminiscent of a synth-heavy Otep or, heaven forbid, an Evanescence with a little less goth. It wants to be sexy; like another Blondie, or even the next Garbage, but this display is far too much of a swing and a miss to even come close.