Twilight Revival “Twilight Revival” EP (Independent, 2007)

Resurrecting 80’s indie

Brian McDonnell previously fronted Gold Coast Refuse who explored Americana from its indie-rock shoots rather than its country roots. They received decent notices on this site and on this showing I can see why. They’re from the intelligently crafted indie rock fraternity, just guitars, bass, drums and ideas. Not hook laden, there’s the meandering spaces and obfuscation of early REM in here - ‘Killers’ has that ‘Reckoning’ feeling complete with Mike Mills style backing vocal (and wasn’t Mills’ contribution always crucial and underplayed). There’s more than a hint of the Boston College rock sound elsewhere. Bullet Lavolta springs to mind, and ‘Dark as Sin’ has that propulsive backbeat along with arpeggio guitar that’ll get any self-respecting rock fan moving. There’s nothing especially outstanding; just good old-fashioned indie-rock.

Date review added:  Thursday, July 19, 2007
Reviewer:  David Cowling
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