Sunday, February 7, 2010

Revolver - Molasses

Revolver were considered a shoegaze band but, as with so many of the other "shoegaze" bands I've covered here, that tag never really fit them properly. To the extent that they were shoegaze it was more of the Swervedriver end of the genre, as this track shows, but basically I'd describe them more as just guitar-driven pop.

Their early singles were... ok. I wasn't really mad about them. This is the strongest song out of them, and it was a b-side (to "Heaven Sent An Angel", a song that reflects Mat Flint's unfortunate tendency for the really cheesy love lyric - though having said that I did once meet the girl that all those songs were about and she was genuinely lovely). All three were released in 1991; the band didn't get around to doing a proper album until 1993, by which point pretty much everyone had lost interest. I actually found that album (Cold Water Flat) a lot more interesting than the singles but unfortunately for Revolver their time had passed.

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