Barrage Reviews

Praise For Hero or Dirt
Debut Album Hero Or Dirt? FBi album of the week 4-10 April
"One to keep your heavily pencilled eyes on in the future, may well be pretty-boy Barrage...we're in for some oft missing theatrics. It's not everyday you see a local laptopper with whirling microphone technique and some off-the shoulder moves!"

Hero or Genius? Barrage used to live in Brisbane, he played in an amazing indie pop band called Lovepack. Brisbane didn't reject his genius but it didn't exactly nurture it so he moved. 'Hero or Dirt' is one of finest electro pop records released in Australia ever. Barrage is Mark Gomes, a man drowning in his own melancholy, second track 'Fantasy Number' encapsulates Barrage, lo-fi electrothat swells with Morrisey-esque imagery. 'Hero or Dirt's' masterpiece is 'Lucifer' a track which reminds one of Barrage's subtle ability to write a song which is steeped in teenage desperation, rejection and heartbreak, yet the song is about satan. 'Lucifer' is more fragile than any song Phil Elvrum could write, more touching than any Chan Marshall ballad, more haunting than any GYBE! piece and more sincere than Patrick Wolf's schtick. Barrage is an introspective songsmith who will make you dance and then cry.