You always know that every time you drop the virtual needle on a Buddyrevelles song, anything could happen. Well, not quite anything, but certainly anything that sits within the indie-rock spectrum…and prog…and pop…and, well, lots of other genres too. Anyway, my point is, expect the unexpected…although I didn’t expect the slightly blissed sixties-infused vibe that comes, largely from the vocal melody.
Hey, but that is what they do…. surprise you. They still have a driving rock sound, one with its eyes set on a bright new future, but they clearly understand that the future exists only because there is a past, and so, consciously or otherwise, some of it echoes through the tones and textures, moods and melodies of their latest single.
The trick that Buddyrevelles always manages to pull off is that they have a precision to their playing but never make things sound dry or academic, an innate swing without beckoning looseness; they stay on the right side of progressive performativeness and never fall back into rock-and-roll clichés. “Oh No” is big and clever but never feels as if it planned to be either, that such anthemics and ornatness are their natural state of affairs, something that they don’t have to think too hard about, their default setting. It’s music made in a very sweet, sweet spot.
Music has to be thought about, do something interesting, but it must also feel free, carefully composed yet delivered as if it is the most natural thing in the world…and that is what is going on here.
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