Montclair’s various rock/digital quartet, The Revel, are packing a punch with their single LIFT ME UP, and true to kind, they refuse to let synth-driven euphoria be reserved for the pop scene. The dynamic duo of brothers, Dean Dantuono (vocals/guitar) and Dillon Dantuono (lead guitar, backing vocals), alongside Stephen Mir (bass, backing vocals) and Kyle Smith (drums), mix forces to impress with energetic vocals, stadium-ready rhythms, and crowd-jumping synths. When you take your feel-good hooks with a rugged edge, you’ll love the serrated facet to the just about industrial-adjacent electrical energy which programs by LIFT ME UP because it solutions existential questions you by no means really considered pondering.
The monitor drifts from reverberating mechanised depth to a refrain that soars with a tsunami of disco funk-pop melodic liberation earlier than rock riffs come tearing in that should outline the way forward for alt-rock. The Revel hardly lived as much as their moniker in LIFT ME UP; they innovated as an alternative of revelling in aural nostalgia. The cherry on the progressive perennial earworm cake is decidedly the power that palpitates from the infectiously chameleonic vox. When you’re sick of alt-rock acts that need to fake they’re too cool to hit the dance ground with you, you gained’t remorse hitting play on this monitor.
LIFT ME UP is now out there on all main streaming platforms, together with Spotify.
Assessment by Amelia Vandergast
