Labels: Revelation
Review by: Ian Cavell
Revelation serve up another ace with the new Gameface album… Emotional pop-punk is just the perfect combination if you ask me and Gameface just pull the whole thing off with that touch of class that separates the master from the apprentice (so, yeah, I’ve just been to see Star Wars). I got this at exactly the same time as the new Farside album and while Farside are pretty fantastic and all that, its ‘Every Last Time’ which has dominated the CD player this last week.
Its a tough job to single out any particular song over another because this is just quality through and through… but you gotta marvel at songs which display such grasp of melody as ‘Everything I do is Wrong’ and the driving ‘Boy Wonder’. The ultimate test though, is to resist the infectious charms of ‘Mercury Dimes’ which contains all the necessary qualifications to constitute being the “epic closer”. Just check out the wonderful progression from laid back melodic guitar to full on emotional melodic punk. Its quite something.
‘Every Last Time’ is just perfect. The only downside is that its presence on the shelf just serves to remind me of the empty space next to it that should contain the other Gameface albums.