The Revellions album reviewed in Mojo
*** Dublin five piece's garage debut conjures mayhem and psychosis.
Like the late Greg Shaw with Bomp!, club DJ/promoter PJ uses his imprint, Dirty Water - named after the Standells' 1966 US hit and his Friday night event of the same name - to provide refuge for the children of Nuggets and Pebbles. The label's slogan, "taking music backwards into tomorrow" lays its intentions bare. Hence the stable's latest discovery, The Revellions, who began life in 2006 as surf instrumentalists but with the addition of singer Ali Moore in late 2007 now pound out beats as much in thrall to the Chocolate Watch Band as Dick Dale. There is a heavy dose of pyretic fuzz and Farfisa (I Don't Mind), yelping punkabilly indebted to Bryan Gregory-era Cramps (Not The Attraction), and eerie bad trip psychedelia worthy of a place on a Creature Double Feature soundtrack (One of a Kind).
