Revere - Keep This Channel Open
Revere’s new single ‘Keep This Channel Open’, is the shining winner amongst the thousands of bands fighting for Channel 5’s recent Send Us Your Music campaign.
The resulting music video was subsequently debuted on Channel 5 earlier this year. The video itself is based around the values of communication and human interaction against a backdrop which nods to good old post-apocalyptic films and television.
Over the past festival season or two, Revere’s music and live shows have pulled in excited reviews from major UK music press, and the band have enjoyed regular bookings at the most respected festivals - the likes of Latitude, Field Day, WOMAD, Larmer Tree, Standon Calling, Moseley Folk and a growing number of others all ensure this inventive and alternative outfit are a staple addition to their considered line-ups.
It’s not just the press and festival goers who have taken to Revere either. Following a sell-out UK tour supporting double Grammy winner Toumani Diabaté, Revere entered the studio with him to record a reworked version of the Joy Division classic ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’.
The track was featured in several broadsheets and major press, including Word Magazine, the Guardian, Financial Times, The Herald and others.
Revere’s biting take on British Folk-Rock has been simmering under the radar, but ‘Keep This Channel Open’ marks the right time to bang on the door of a wider music-loving audience. The first single from an album that pushes their musicality into a more frantic, grittier onslaught.
Drawing on influences as diverse as Ennio Morricone, Broken Social Scene and Nick Cave, Revere bind together the traditional back-bone of guitar/bass/drums with an unlikely approach to the violin, cello, and piano.
Elsewhere, the line-up is complimented by Salvation Army-style brass sections lamenting over layers of fractured vocal samples and distorted keyboards.
Stabbing synths and waves of strings are brought together by a voice that is both urgent and sea-worn. Imagine Ian Curtis singing Scott Walker, set against the varied skylines of England’s industrial docklands.
Album Details Announced! Title: TBC - To be released early 2013.