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* Shoegaze * Indie * Post-rock * Grunge * Dream Pop * Ambient * Ethereal *
Artist..: Revolver
Album...: Cold Water Flat
GENRE....: Rock
STYLE....: Indie Rock, Shoegaze
LABEL....: HUT SCENE.....: 2015-01-26
BITRATE..: 886 kbps avg STORE.....: 1993-00-00
ENCODER..: FLAC 1.2.1 -8 -V TRACKS....: 10
SIZE.....: 301.6MB SOURCE....: CD
URL..: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolver_%28UK_band%29
- TRACKLIST
1 Cool Blue 5:02
2 Shakesdown 3:15
3 Cradle Snatch 5:55
4 I Wear Your Chain 3:45
5 Nothing Without You 5:37
6 Bottled Out 4:18
7 Coming Back 4:11
8 Cold Water Flat 3:44
9 Makes No Difference All The Same 5:39
10 Wave 6:08
Total Playtime: 47:34
Note: This UK pressing does not include the US only bonus track
"Medicine Smile". (CAROL 1734-2)
http://www.discogs.com/Revolver-Cold-Water-Flat/release/787070
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Revolver were a London based guitar band in existence from 1990û1994,
comprising Mat Flint (guitar/vocals), Hamish Brown (bass) and Nick Dewey
(drums). Flint and Dewey had been in school bands together, and when the two
moved to London in the autumn of 1990 met Brown who completed the line-up.
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More or less dismissed by the U.K. press as a 1991 animal (i.e. "shoegazing
is dead and we never really liked these guys anyway") many might not notice
the stylistic maturity Revolver shows now. The progression is announced right
away on the opening "Cool Blue" with the much deeper (almost reggae deep)
bass by Hamish Brown and those blaring trumpets. No longer content just
blissing out with a standard, fuzzed-out guitar pop-tune about some girl we
could care less about, each song here seems built on its own unique base --
for example, "Shakesdown" is just an acoustic strummed harshly more than
banged, a wandering flute, and Mat Flint's voice. In some ways they do their
cause some disservice by re-recording "Crimson," an older A-side inexplicably
left off Baby's Angry. It is perhaps the band's finest old song, but it seems
out of place among this much more interesting, singular collection. "Cradle
Snatch" is as slithering as a snake, as cool as a cucumber, as unnerving as a
lit fuse that never seems to explode. Oozing out over that heavy bass and the
off-rhythm toms and congas (!!!) is a chorus in the making, and when it kicks
in near the end after a period of silence, the effect is complete.
Correspondingly, "I Wear Your Chain" improves on their old mold by adding
loud plucked strings, more stop/start dynamics, a gripping guitar line, and
some crisp rat-a-tat drumming from Nick Dewey. By the time it reaches the
"Why can't you be with me?" chorus they've set us up to be knocked down, and
the tumble feels good. That's how it's supposed to work, when songs gain a
better complexity, and that's a perfect example of why this LP betters their
past LPs. Cold Water Flat does have one minor but ever-present flaw: Flint's
vocals are a little on the cloying side, as if he's trying too hard to curl
the vowels into something more memorable, making Revolver a little drippy
where their music is otherwise a hell of a lot more enervating. That aside,
the end result is a strong album from a band many considered second division,
a perception that is unfairly holding down this band's popularity. Will
anyone listen long enough to see how they've grown?
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