DeakinHill's LIFELINE New E.P, LIFELINE by Deakin Hill ... The Deakin/Hill partnership has created a sublime mix of imaginative ingredients for their début E.P ..LIFELINE....It's Alice in Wonderland meets the Sex Pistols/Or simply imagine Nick Drake joins the Specials!! Impossible?? TRUE!!.........No? Whatever it's like then certainly the time is right for Deakin Hill .... Lifeline the E.P; fresh from this cool, crisp, razor-sharp 3-piece comes a mixture of sonic puzzles, intelligently honest songs with apt and much needed optimism; perhaps some fine baroque..n..roll; succulent ska and shades of acoustic bliss through to the total perverse; acid on acid, inner and outer spaced meanderings and meanings...which all add to the marvellous musical medicine that makes you feel better and makes the music move!.... Apparently so, ...(Lots of "M's)... Introspective and Multi-textured this is a majestic and momentous effort, the first inklings of a manifesto, (More M's)... shrugging off the stultifying air of today's bland pop, the Lifeline E.P suggests that the secrets in the title... This unprocessed, untouched, astonishingly powerful three-piece relay their experiences via the straightforward potent medium of killer hooks (CLOUD 9) and captivating choruses (THE CHARMER)... In the world of Deakin Hill, there are no limits....
"Every so often something comes along and the old ears prick up to the sound of something fresh, something original. Hail the band that has gone to the trouble to put a huge slab of ‘thought’ into their music. Deakin Hill, do it this way, all with a big fat smile on their face. Lifeline sets out their stall perfectly, here’s a band that loves its rhythms and knows how to exploit them. Album opener 'Lifeline' and track two 'Cloud 9' slide along in a linear dancier groove kind of a way all rubbing nicely together with Michael Deakin's smoothly delivered vocals. Then we have the 'Charmer', with its delicious Charleston inspired hook, if ever an album included a single, then surely this is it. Less dancy (well not dancy at all to be honest) but equally good is 'Laughing Boy', more great vocals, and the influx of some well chosen bass-lines all add up to some fine spine tingling moments. Then it’s back to something a lot livelier, enter 'Give Me Results' and 'Headless Chickens' all ably produced by Paul Sampson.The CD finishes off with some chill out time in the shape of.. 'And to Sleep'….Lay back, relax and just let your mind flow to the fact of what a great band DeakinHill actually are. Inspiring stuff."
Pete Chambers. Author of Godiva Rocks and The Two Tone Trail, November 2007
