Your foot hits the pavement, you feel the city and propel into the flow. Negotiate the kaleidoscope of traffic. Sidewalk slipstream. The underground. Reality blurs and you are floating in space. Drifting, you hear the vibration of a future daydream. This is Reverie Sound Revue.
Simultaneously dancing between the enthusiasm of new wave and the
earnestness of moody Britpop, Reverie Sound Revue’s new eponymous
album is equally sophisticated and playful, picking up where its 2003 indie
darling EP left off. Reverie Sound Revue is an otherworldly exploration of
pop music, drenched in reverb, a soundtrack for zero-gravity.
As a band, Reverie Sound Revue has learned to not let space get in the way.
In fact, they are more together when they are apart. After separating 5 years
ago, RSR has created their new full-length album without all 5 members ever
being in the same studio together.
Reverie Sound Revue formed in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in 2002. The
distinctive coo of vocalist Lisa Lobsinger matched with the pulsing rhythm
section of John Marcel de Waal and Bryce Gracey, and the catchy guitar
interplay of Marc De Pape and Patrick Walls made for an immediately
recognizable sound that turned heads across Canada. However, the band
had other callings and separated in 2004, leaving Canada and the world to
wonder what could have been.
Since then, individual members of Reverie Sound Revue earned degrees in
mathematics, engineering, electronics, architecture and art, and toured the
world with Broken Social Scene.
In late 2005, inspired to make the album they were unable to make while
together, they began writing new songs and exchanging ideas via e-mail as
members were spread between Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal.
Instruments were recorded individually during the summer of 2006 in Calgary,
vocals were recorded through the winter of 2007 in Toronto, followed by a
patient year of details, layers and mixes.
And it was worth the wait. The result is Reverie Sound Revue, a cohesive
collection of 11 songs filled with guitars that chime and reflect one another
in curious play, and innocent keyboard lines that tumble over a propulsive
rhythm section, all tied together by Lobsinger’s haunting vocals. Whether it’s
the excited beat of “You Don’t Exist If I Don’t See You”, the slow discoball twirl
of “An Anniversary Away”, or the plaintive plead of “I Could Be Dangerous”,
Reverie Sound Revue is music to get lost in.
