Your Homework For This Evening….
… go straight home and acquire, by whatever means necessary, the new CD from our Redditch brethren Project Revise, avail a CD player, laptop or other such device and proceed to destroy your parents’ living room. You then hand in the recording of your very own unrevised project for the delectation of the waiting hordes.
The skate punk version of the three amigos, my friends Chris Tamburro- lead vocals ,guitar, Richard Marshall- lead vocals, bass and David Yarnell- drums comprise a fun loving and dare to dream trio of talented artists all trying to find their place in the meat market that is the music industry. They are adamant to go down the self- production route and have unleashed this tiny collection of ‘Songs That Sound Like Songs’ for your kind consideration.
The first request is to ‘Tie Me Down’, er hang on folks, we’ve only just met. The video has been shot in Cinemascope- of sorts- and sees our intrepid heroes in a sonic and visual 3.39-minute spectacular complete with skateboard, a bag of loot and a cry-baby (yes, David). Time is fleeting, moving ever forward as it offloads various burdensome tidings on our weary shoulders. With ‘Three Long Years’ we are amidst the strife, a thoughtful and clever piece of music here, with an exquisitely atmospheric video to boot. In our search for the perfect punk rocker, we see the band in slapstick mode in ‘Time Will Carry You’ as they present their creation, a little off colour perhaps…mmmm…but funny, nonetheless. Another cunning and perceptive lyric is ‘transfer my heart onto paper’ from ‘Every Time Breaks’ tells of the essence of an artist, a daunting prospect to begin with, a relief when it has been done and then the final artwork is presented with some trepidation to the waiting public- that’s me! Next, we have the story of a fox, a pig and a poodle, a little bit Chicken Licken maybe but more of their playful antics on show here and the notion that ‘music will make everything better’, Hallelujah. As the ‘Fire Burns Out’- ‘I feel I belong here’ but we’ll take ‘No Chances’ and ‘ build our own colosseum and fill it up with a thousand gladiators’, sounds good to me so we’ll take ‘One Last Stand’ and dive into the mental pit which will be created by the mental beats on offer, get in there my friends.
Songs to rectify, unify, fortify, satisfy and probably make you cry and guys you owe me a hokey cokey!
Project Revise- Songs That Sound Like Songs out now via self- release