POSTED BY A JAMES BOND FAN ON ONE OF THE MAJOR JB SITES!!
I like full-on rock, so I enjoyed listening to this track. The villain of the novel uses heroin as a weapon and the colour red is thematically significant because of its association with poppies: the music video alludes to 'heroin chic' and mortality (pale make up with heavy black eye shadow), and it uses the colour red, and thus it plays effectively into the novel's themes as well as the rock music values of "sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll".
My only reservation is not with the track itself but whether this genre of music is really the most appropriate for the novel as a 'period piece'. Faulks set the novel in the 60s, where Fleming left off, so SAL's contemporary rock sound doesn't match the period; in that regard, a more 'retro' musical theme may have been more appropriate. It's true that for 'Casino Royale' Chris Cornell's 'You Know My Name' has a raunchy rock sound to it - perhaps giving SAL their cue - but that movie is set in the present.
I like the band, though - the energy of the performance and the aesthetics of the video - and I hope SAL go from strength to strength.
