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A Silent Film - You Will Leave A Mark

Oxford based A Silent Film release new single “You Will Leave a Mark” on Xtra Mile Recordings trying to emulate bands like The Mystery Jets, Athlete and Scouting For Girls, all of which they have recently supported.

Sadly for the quartet they fall well short of the standard expected in the independent world these days. The track opens well enough with a nice piece of piano by lead singer Robert Stevenson but sadly it then moves into an eighties style middle of the road song. In some essence it sounds like A Silent Film are an Indie band trying to be rock, which sadly just does not work.

“You Will Leave a Mark” is taken from their forthcoming debut album, The City That Sleeps, due for release in October and hopefully the rest of the album is less of an attempt to be something they are not for this hard working band.