Deaf Havana: Rituals review – formulaic machine-made pop

(So Recordings)Norfolk’s Deaf Havana’s nine-year career has been one of regular metamorphosis, as they have shifted from post-hardcore to Top 5-grazing commercial alternative rock. Here, they’re tearing up their own songwriting conventions. After years of writing songs on an acoustic guitar, frontman James Veck-Gilodi penned song titles first, those titles dictated the content and the songs themselves were written on software before the band got involved.Strange, then, that thi