Six years is a long time in the world of indie music. Back in 2003, hipsters had just invented vintage clothing, still feared black people and thought of cellphones as being for sell-outs to talk about how extreme they got at the Linkin Park show the night before. A more innocent time in which, for a brief moment, Reverie Sound Revue won the hearts of the local scene with a six-song EP and then quietly disbanded. Joining forces again despite its members being spread across the country, the band has released a new album that picks up where it left off.
The production is slicker and the songwriting a little more sophisticated, but once again the band is grounded in the voice of Broken Social Scene’s Lisa Lobsinger. Her voice is hardly more forceful than a whisper, yet it’s never overwhelmed by the ethereal popscapes the band builds from simple drum loops and delicate melodies. It’s a sonically beautiful experience, but a fleeting one; you wish the songs would stick inside your head longer. Instead, the melodies fade and you’re left with a hazy melancholy. Perhaps that’s the way it should be, considering how Reverie Sound Revue appeared and then disappeared so suddenly all those years ago, leaving us then and now with songs that feel like fondly remembered lullabies we can’t quite recall.
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