Naomi Rush

Naomi Rush is not someone I’ve come across before but on the basis of this debut EP she may well be making a decent name for herself in time to come.

‘Pixel Poetry’ is a small collection of songs written by the lady herself and sung in a throaty and dark manner with some excellent backing from Frankie Drain (on the track ‘Curious Breed’) on bass and James Highley on drums and production.

She claims influences from the likes of Kate Bush and James Hetfield as well as (of course) Kurt Cobain but her music is rather more in the realms of dark dreams and issues and it isn’t difficult to hear strains of Paramore or Evanescence in her music as well. “I wrote these songs in my bedroom, with my guitar over the space of a couple of years, I've covered some pretty dark issues that are going on in the world today that I feel strongly about and hope that Pixel Poetry reaches people who will be empowered and inspired by it.”

She bears repeated listening as the music definitely has hooks and when she sings pleadingly “The blood doesn’t move the way I want it to, my veins are starved of the thrill” you begin to involuntarily shrink a little as her vocals resonate somewhere deep inside.

After listening through a number of times it is clear that this is a talent that is developing before our ears but the EP stands up on its own and it is well worth searching out.

It isn’t perfect but definitely a cut above the majority of X-Factor wannabees and Madonna clones cluttering the airwaves at the moment.