THE REVIVALISTS "CITY OF SOUND"
The formation of The Revivalists was all about chance, but everything
since then has been a combination of hard work, awesome music, and
friendship. The septet has been playing nonstop since 2007, crafting a
genre-hopping sound that rounds out traditional rock instrumentation
with horns and pedal steel guitar and mixes the divergent backgrounds of
its individual members with the humid, funky undercurrents of the
band’s New Orleans home. The result is like English spoken with an
exotic accent: familiar, yet difficult to pin down.Religion aside, a revival is all about the tangible electricity that
can only be created when enough like minds are crammed under a single
roof for a singular purpose. It’s a spiritual spectacle, a carnival of
the divine, a whole greater than the sum of its parts. The same could
be said for The Revivalists’ searing live performances. The band has a
knack for bringing music to life on a stage, and they have tuned their
talents to Swiss-watch precision over years of relentless touring. Their
bombastic showmanship is the outgrowth of a desire to connect with
audiences on a personal level, and that intimate connection is what
elevates their shows above simple entertainment.True to their name, The Revivalists lean more heavily on the older
styles and warmer sounds of the golden age of rock ‘n roll, but the band
isn’t afraid to dabble in electronics and sleight-of-studio when it’s
right for the song. The group tends not to bother with questions like
“does this sound like us?” or “does this fit with our other stuff?”,
instead allowing songs to define themselves and take shape organically,
each on its own terms. Is this a dark, heavy rock manifesto driven by a
steel guitar line that borders on electronica, or is it an airy,
acoustic story about star-crossed lovers, rich in vocal harmony and
sparsely arranged until the coda? This one’s funky, that one’s sweet,
this one’s heavy….THE REVIVALISTS
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