Revelino
	Broadcaster
	(Dirty/CD)
	Mick Heaney

After the dazzling display of flair playing that brought this imaginative, exciting outfit from second division stagnation to the brink of the premiership, for their second outing the boys have decided to add some steel, adding the solidity of strength in depth rather than go out on a limb with another audacious effort. In other words, Revelino's follow up to their revelatory debut album concentrates on honing and polishing Brendan Tallon`s melodic gifts. There's more drive and a bigger sound (not to mention a bigger budget) than last time around, but while there are fewer extremes of sifting introspection and soaring eight mile high harmonies, quiet melodies sit comfortably alongside jagged guitars on tracks such as 'Sixth Sense', and the band's instinctive feel for classic pop-rock is still razor-sharp as on 'Radio Speaks', 'Step On High' and 'Rollercoaster', while the psychedelic swirl on the closing 'Been And Gone' is stunning. For the most part, the songs sound more sure of themselves, even if the lyrical tone is one of uncertainty. Only on the heavy-handed epic ballad ending of 'All Hope Is Fading' does the consolidation tactic fail. But this is to quibble - Broadcaster is a confident effort, Revelino's addition of connsummate production (courtesy of Ciaran Byrne & Ronan McHugh) and robust arrangements to their chiming tunes, should, hopefully, elevate them to the top flight.