THE REVILLOS
The Revillos - Rev Up! - TWILIGHT ZONE
so TWILIGHTZONE excels today and have posted this from the Revillos - REV UP their debut album after the name change which sad to say I missed somehow . . . possibly the birth of my first child my son! Might have something to do with it!
TWILIGHTZONE says:
The Revillos "Rev Up" 1980
Emerging more than a year after Fay Fife and Eugene Reynolds broke a nation's heart by dismantling the Rezillos, the Revillos' Rev Up debut set the stage, immediately, for a mission that was going to take the last band's sound into an entirely new universe -- one that had, sad to say, already been visited by the B-52's' and the Cramps' recent doings, but which was nevertheless ripe for serious exploration......A dramatic hybrid of day-glo rockabilly, B-movie glitter, and post-punk trash, Rev Up is a howling good time, a blur of wacked intentions and wired energies that settle for a moment on one, two, a dozen classic boogies, but never hang around for long, because there's always another planet to build a drive-in on. And so, "Secret of the Shadow" blurs into the title track; "The Rock-A-Boom" leaks into "Voodoo"; and the semi-classic single "Motorbike Beat" incinerates everything in sight.
- Review by Dave Thompson
Try it - IT’S TASTEFUL!