Kykeon by Rev Rev Rev

Rev Rev Rev
release
“Kykeon”
out on Semptember 20th 2019

Since the release of their self-titled debut album back in 2013, Rev Rev Rev have repeatedly beenhailed as one of the finest new shoegaze bands. They’ve clockedup airtime and praise fromBBC 6 Music, Drowned In Sound, Clash Magazine and Bandcamp Daily and wound up taking theirnotorious live shows across the UK and Europe; sharing the stagewith the likes ofThe Jesus and Mary Chain, the Brian JonestownMassacre,The Telescopesand Ringo Deathstarr along the way. The band were invited atSXSW 2019, where their live set impressed Bob Boilen of All Songs Consideredand earned thema feature on NPR’s SXSW wrap-up as well as airplay on the network’s radios.

The new album, produced by James Aparicio (Spiritualized, Cult Of Dom Keller, Dead Vibrations), marks also their signing on cult indie psych label Fuzz Club. First single ‘Clutching the blade’, out last March and coinciding with their SXSW participation, was received very well on psych / shoegaze webzines and beyond. “Kykeon” was a psychedelic drink made up of several ingredients, consumed during Eleusinian Mysteries, a set of rites, ceremonies and experiences held in the ancient Greece. Rev RevRev’s Kykeon is murky, ritualistic drone-rock including trance-like drumming, fuzzy reverberated guitars, tons of feedback and abrasive atonal sounds. But also Loveless-esque shoegaze soundwith Laura Iacuzio’s shadowy, ethereal vocals emerging through all-consuming walls-of-noise. A certain sense of danger and losing control runs throughoutthe album – but the package also includes a flight into deep space a mid the stars.