Dead Ringer

Some of you may or may not be familiar with Dead Ringer. If you fall in the first category, then you've probably discovered the band through singer/guitarist Kristia Moya's YouTube page. If you fall into the latter, I would suggest getting on that. They're a female fronted pop punk band that also has some male vocals; think RVIVR with less male vocals and less ridiculous hair cuts.

First off, the recording quality of this demo is impeccable, sounds nothing like a demo. The sound quality is great and the mixing of the instruments sounds fantastic. The bass is a little hard to detect, but, such is the curse of a bass player. All three tracks are pretty fast paced, which works well for the band. The lyrics are well written, none of the standard "hey, we're a pop punk band that sings about girls and girls and girls". I suppose that comes with being fronted by a girl. At any rate, the lyrics are very easy to relate to; something that's become pretty hard to come by these days. The instrumentation is a little standard for pop punk, not much changes from each track either. Aside from the lack of change up on instrumentation, the songs are good and very catchy.

For this being a demo, it's a great place for the band to start. A well recorded and mixed demo, great lyrics, catchy music. If this is where the bands starts at with a demo, I'm very much looking forward to what Dead Ringer does with a full length release. A good band with good music, definitely worth listening to for a pick me up or when you're already in a mood.

7/10

http://deadringer.bandcamp.com/

The demo is completely free; so this is something easy to pick up and listen to on a regular basis.