Band : Revival

Album title : Horses Of War

Label : Gypsy Eyes Records

Distributor : Sonic Rendezvous

Release Date : 20/02/2007

Release : CD

Revival is a band from Los Angeles that released their debut album “Horses of War”. It’s a scything lyrical effort supported by a mix of British psychedelic sound and post-punk. This short debut album sounds very depressive. With an alt-country attitude and instrumentals with post punk effects. A song like "Fog Rolling In" contains zoom effects that could be passed off as British psychedelic influences. Most songs like for example "King of King’s" sounds like a bad version of Nickelback. They tries to infuse a bad-boy attitude with country style themes and the use of alternative instrumentals. It doesn’t quite work and despite the short length of this album “Horses of War” the songs seems to cary on forever. The better moments for this debut band Revival are the final end in the song “Fog Rolling In" and the best song on this record "When You Come Calling" because of the good alternative guitar strumming. Revival need to add a little variety to their songs and work more with their strong points rather than mixing too many influences into a musical mush. “Horses of War” is a little bit disappointing and feels like a missed opportunity.

Points: 58/100

Guido Claes.