Labels: Revelation
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Hmm, I dip into the pile of review records that I would normally only review after I had been consuming beers. It’s much harder to write stuff for these things whilst 100% sound of mind, because you really have to listen to it properly and you also notice the passage of time a whole lot more. 35 minutes here and I am already bored after 10 of them. So either it’s my attention span or the record that’s the problem, I am leaning towards the latter.
This is some pretty standard metal / hardcore on here. It seems to conform to a lot of current stereotypes, it has chuggy riffs, bad vocals (sometimes sung, sometimes screamed, sometimes sassed irritatingly), and I am afraid it just passes me by somewhat like the cars on the road home last night, although that was because my car only goes 60mph before breaking into a torrid sweat. This music certainly does not come close to making me sweat. The melodic parts remind me of At the Drive In, and sometimes they have sassy San Diego parts, and then from time to time they rock out in a chuggy Nu-Metal fashion. Pfft. It sounds well produced (ooh, Kurt Ballou) and it’ll probably appeal to a whole manner of people, I mean Revelation would never put out a record that only 50 people would want to buy would they? It is energetic, annoyingly catchy, and the band plays their instruments well. I am betting they wear tight pants.
Pretty bog standard music on the whole, probably it is very good for it’s genre but I am not remotely interested in this style of music and my Sunday is better wasted at least listening to music I appreciate. I would recommend this to anyone who misses At the Drive In. But really, you should just get over it.