..We Date Supermodels songs embody the rock energy of The Black Crow's with a vitality that is tinged with confessional darkness 'when you throw away your real friends your just running a round the pond it`s OK running around the pond we all come around someday.'This quartet however explores such musical horizon's without wallowing in despair and songs like 'there I was' convey a bittersweet wistfulness reminiscent of an American anthem by Bruce Springsteen.
Xavier has a strong voice which calls to mind Rob Thomas of Matchbox twenty the force of his emotions lift his voice from good to remarkable at times howling like Robert Plant the rest of the band shows similar abandon Cruises fretwork proves that the song's mood begins with the bass line, the guitar player tops off the sound with an ample supply of headbangers ball pyrotechnics.
Dressed in black leather pants and shirt Xavier all but spills his blood onstage as he slides to his knees with his hand on his heart you sense he has absorbed enough hard knocks to make a gripping VH1 behind the music segment the rest of the band is equally energetic.
We Date Supermodels is one of those ballsy bands that seem to surface every once in a while to prove rock is not dead the visual impact of Xavier's furiously passionate performance alone would leave a hearing-.impaired audience mesmerized .---------------This is a review of a show done at the Key Club in West Hollywood under a different name.This article appeared in music connection magazine...
