Anemo; from the Greek prefix meaning wind. Assuming you will ever buy this single it doesn’t have any of the ambience that the name seems to suggest.

Despite the overwhelming publicity this Brighton-based pop-cum-rock-cum-electronic act is getting from everywhere, the only reference that can be seen is the wind that pushes tumbleweeds on their inevitable journey to the sea and the silence that accompanies that motion.

They’ve almost been ironically marketed as a rock band, with the single artwork that definitely references that of A Perfect Circle, Anemo seem to lack any of the charm of previous rock acts by taking that very element out of the band’s very simple equation.
 
Eastern flavoured acapella vocals open the track and slowly fade into a Savage Garden/U2 styled rock romp that fails to break any kind of boundary, push the envelope or push anything to the limit.

It will be the track mixed easily in with any other non-specific dance track played to accompany screaming sound of a million mid-life crises, and when it peaks you’re left feeling nothing but indifference.

Don’t be too surprised if you don’t see this review propping up their MySpace page as you have to be backing the band instead of observing the band’s true nature. As is said, truth hurts.