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       Languid swoon, serene intoxication. The crafty
      & precocious debut album by Revelino
      opens with a taut, blanched-out sleek reverie
      named 'Happiness Is Mine' and sounds like
      the next potent classic Radiohead should
      write. 
       
      "Nothing moves inside/This picture out
      of time," Brendan Tallon ghosts from
      the heart of some strange, dreamy depths,
      and the line resonates like your own intimate,
      internal hum amplified. It's quite some outrageous
      opener. 
       
      Revelino are big news in their native Ireland
      now - although this feat is no longer such
      big news as it was a few years back - and
      this measured debut sketches and schemes
      then suddenly lacerates like fractured bones
      slashing through smooth white skin. 
       
      The surface only just holds the undercurrents.
      'My Bones' is (too much) prime Pixies, all
      wild blinks & mind-scatter, profound
      yet glancing as a spring breeze. 
       
      These songs are pellets longing to be cosmic
      piledrivers. They're weighed down by their
      own portentousness, then suddenly fired by
      a turn of speed, a clenched twist, a golden
      line which darts out and dazzles you like
      sly sunrays: "You half speak my name/I
      want to dance in this world"('No Forever
      Girl'). 
       
      'Hello' is no more than an ace song, courteously
      raucous, but 'I Feel So Tired' sad-aches
      to its marrow. 
       
      Revelino are uplifted, embryonic, as chance
      as a ricochet...and poetry lies here should
      you choose. 
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