Languid swoon, serene intoxication. The crafty
& precocious debut album by Revelino
opens with a taut, blanched-out sleek reverie
named 'Happiness Is Mine' and sounds like
the next potent classic Radiohead should
write.
"Nothing moves inside/This picture out
of time," Brendan Tallon ghosts from
the heart of some strange, dreamy depths,
and the line resonates like your own intimate,
internal hum amplified. It's quite some outrageous
opener.
Revelino are big news in their native Ireland
now - although this feat is no longer such
big news as it was a few years back - and
this measured debut sketches and schemes
then suddenly lacerates like fractured bones
slashing through smooth white skin.
The surface only just holds the undercurrents.
'My Bones' is (too much) prime Pixies, all
wild blinks & mind-scatter, profound
yet glancing as a spring breeze.
These songs are pellets longing to be cosmic
piledrivers. They're weighed down by their
own portentousness, then suddenly fired by
a turn of speed, a clenched twist, a golden
line which darts out and dazzles you like
sly sunrays: "You half speak my name/I
want to dance in this world"('No Forever
Girl').
'Hello' is no more than an ace song, courteously
raucous, but 'I Feel So Tired' sad-aches
to its marrow.
Revelino are uplifted, embryonic, as chance
as a ricochet...and poetry lies here should
you choose.
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