Rev Rev Rev - Kykeon (2019) EN

Finally. The new album from my Italian friends is released and successfully continues the good impression left after Des fleurs magiques bourdonnaient. 

Kykeon from the very beginning shows what reverb-soaked, old-school shoegaze (reminding me more of the early MBV than any nugaze) is about. The album is all about "exploring the obscure. It’s a ritual descent into the underworld, but also a flight through the cold spaces amid the stars". It is achieved with the dense, guitar backgrounds that leave nothing to see in between apart from the effects appearing from time to time on them and making them look even prettier.

The Italians are keen on the using of the barely audible vocals and less of the melodic and more of the noisy atmosphere. Obviousl, the listener has to like these aesthetics but I'd say it's closer to the shoegaze ideal as stated in the 90s. Especially in tracks such as the single one Clutching the Blade or One Illusion Is Very Much Like Another.

Kykeon costs 5 GBP.

Rev Rev Rev - Des fleurs magiques bourdonnaient (2016) EN

Check: Clutching the Blade

Country: Italy

Genre: old-school shoegaze

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