Portsmouth Five piece HIGH DOWN’s brand new E.P ’Moving On’ kicks ’N’ bites with a melted pepper-jack cheese flow of American college, red plastic cups in the air, pool party anthems – By Guy Shankland. Opener ‘Against The Tide’ is a pregnant pause littered, chanting chorus fuelled Nineties Pop-gun starting pistol which has a distinct Sum 41 feel to it. Second track ‘All On you’ tows a similar new found line, it’s crunching opening riff falls into the sea of high school heartbreak and despite intermittingly coming up for air, gets lost somewhere in the salty mix. The tough love laden lead single ’Life Lessons’ hit’s the all the Pop-Punk bases. Evoking images of tattooed teens struggling with life’s hardships, hitting out at those closet to them, while selfishly drowning in a 7-11 pool of self pitying no-one understand me stubbornness. ’Making History’ pushes then prods without ever really threatening physical harm while closer ‘Rescue Me’ goes for the acoustic marshmallow cooking over the camp fire, can’t live without you, love song. The extra female vocals and rousing (then slowed back down) finale add some much needed variation to this nose studded lullaby. ‘Moving On’ is an impressive, albeit one dimensional release from a band that shows real potential and one I will defintley be catching live as and when they hit the road.