The Revivals
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>> High in Friends Places
They’re honest at least. The Revivals are showing a complete disregard for any modern ideas about rock music and have made an album of nads-out old school rock and roll. They’ve been generously compared to the Stones and Creedence but it’s probably fairer to compare them to people like Reef, or Rooster.
The grammatically erratic ‘High in Friends Places’ rolls along at a merry old pace but lacks the song writing to propel The Revs into the major limelight. That said, it does have generational appeal and will no doubt please aging rockers and whatever the ‘00s equivalent of the ‘lad’ is in equal measure. ‘Jimi Biscuits’ is particularly good fun but I don’t reckon I’ll listen to it more than twice. The rest is fairly generic.
The Revivals are currently enjoying an almost baffling level of recognition at the moment – touring with the Zutons and having appeared at SXSW – I can only imagine that they have an absolutely tremendous live show going on. Sadly, for me, this sounds like music I actively started avoiding in the mid-nineties. But, this being a Glasgow band doing it their own way, I wish The Revivals the very best of luck and hope they can continue to build on the following they have at the moment.
>> Russell Moore
>> High in Friends Places
They’re honest at least. The Revivals are showing a complete disregard for any modern ideas about rock music and have made an album of nads-out old school rock and roll. They’ve been generously compared to the Stones and Creedence but it’s probably fairer to compare them to people like Reef, or Rooster.
The grammatically erratic ‘High in Friends Places’ rolls along at a merry old pace but lacks the song writing to propel The Revs into the major limelight. That said, it does have generational appeal and will no doubt please aging rockers and whatever the ‘00s equivalent of the ‘lad’ is in equal measure. ‘Jimi Biscuits’ is particularly good fun but I don’t reckon I’ll listen to it more than twice. The rest is fairly generic.
The Revivals are currently enjoying an almost baffling level of recognition at the moment – touring with the Zutons and having appeared at SXSW – I can only imagine that they have an absolutely tremendous live show going on. Sadly, for me, this sounds like music I actively started avoiding in the mid-nineties. But, this being a Glasgow band doing it their own way, I wish The Revivals the very best of luck and hope they can continue to build on the following they have at the moment.
>> Russell Moore
