Shane’s Rock Challenge: HEY!HELLO! – 2012 – Black Valentine [CD single]

Shane’s Rock Challenge: HEY!HELLO! – 2012 – Black Valentine [CD single]
By Shane Pinnegar
8/10

Ginger Wildheart hit the ball outta the park for his 555% crowd funded project, and followed that up with another big win with Hey!Hello! – so much so that he treated pledgers to this bonus single for the song Black Valentine, along with two cover versions.

Black Valentine is – like the entire Hey!Hello! album – instant, catchy, intelligent hard rock featuring cleverly insightful lyrics about a girl he wants to avoid, all underpinned by Victoria Liedke’s wonderful, fairytale vocals.

On the [virtual] b-side, there’s much fun to be had with The Sparks’ Wacky Women and The Tubes extremely underrated She’s A Beauty, given a workout here thanks to Leidke’s vocals, again.

Both tracks bounce along zestily and this single is an abundantly worthy companion to the album.

 

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