Search - The Peachbones :: Revenant

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Tattered Sails
2. Scattered
3. Ten Feet Tall
4. Daydream Listening
5. Island
6. Still Waiting
7. Backlash
8. Short Year
9. Big Like the Sea
10. Ghosts
11. Call Back

CD Details

All Artists: The Peachbones
Title: Revenant
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Independent
Original Release Date: 7/23/2005
Re-Release Date: 8/16/2005
Genre: Rock
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 783707163505

Synopsis

Product Description

The Peachbones' second album, Revenant is a big departure from their debut album both sonically and creatively. Moody, contemplative selections and intense rockers comprise Revenant, while thematic elements--lyrical references to oceans and water--tie the album together. Inventive guitars and synths find their way onto the album as well, creating a textured yet raw rock sound. The opener, "Tattered Sails," sets the tranquil--if not stark--mood of the new songs penned by Hoover and arranged by the band. "Daydream Listening," "Island," and "Ghosts" accompany "Tattered Sails" as the album's contemplative, Floydian pieces. "Ten Feet Tall," "Still Waiting," and "Backlash" are classic Peachbones rock numbers, while "Short Year" and "Big Like the Sea" introduce a new rock sound for the band. The album also has an epic, "Call Back." Clocking in at over 10 minutes, and the end of the album, this song in many ways is the epitomé of the band's sound.

CD Reviews

Letters from the Ocean

Joel Andrew | Middle America | 09/22/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"For a band that made waves in roots rock throughout Ohio, the Peachbone's new album, Revenant, opens with almost stunningly new ambition in the opening seconds of the first track, Tattered Sails. Gone are the previous conventional alt-rock devices; leaving only a bare an honest love song that exists outside of time and lays the foundation of an album filled with wonderful seaside imagery. On their second full-length effort, Hoover's lead vocals maintain equality with the music that lets his conviction and presence co-exist with great delicacy over songs that range from ballad glory to ballsy rock. The entire album, The Peachbones achieve rock-out jams that never resort to generic garage band tactics. Lyrically this album comes light years further with personal honesty that refuses even a drip of the current emotional sentimentality so many other bands use as a crutch. The songs are constructed with a range of loneliness- sometimes violently exhaustive, other times, thoughtful and pensive but always with a sense that the outcome is yet to be determined. In Big Like the Sea, a song in almost psalm-like form, the band yields what the entire album promised: a marriage of energetic slow-rock and the poetry only a ballad would have time for. The lyrics maintain the anxiety of being alone but being with others; being in a world that is hard to trust, perhaps due to one's own actions. The accessible lyrics seem hopeful we will all overcome the largest waves that loom. With the confidence this album exudes, it seems the Peachbones already have."

Bring'em back ALIVE!!!

moze | jacksonville, nc | 09/21/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"what a change for these guys! The Peachbones have nailed their powerful LIVE sound into a record. charismatic vocals and oceans of riffage will keep you holding your life boat. the slowersongs on the record are soulful and heartbreaking with a fulltilt hopfulness that many artists cannot duplicate. this is a must have album!

moze"