The Buddyrevelles are back with "The Concession," the second of their ambitious trilogy of musical adventures, and it's a knockout. Weighing in at just under 18 minutes, the four-track EP compresses a melting pot of emotion into a lean, deeply rewarding listen that seethes with a raw kind of energy and melodic clarity. The Consolation album provided comfort and an environment in which to introspect, "The Concession" digs deeper, engaging with themes of joy, grief, and anger. The result is a collection of songs that don't just speak but shout, ache, and shimmer. It's personal calculating over propulsive guitars and soaring hooks.
The first track on the EP is "Peabo," a song that instantly sets the mood. With its urgent rhythm and soaring melodic turns, it's an anthemic and intimate emotional highwire act that plays like a personal confession shouted from a rooftop. It's an obvious highlight and little more than a microcosm of the band's feat, managing to remain both achingly honest and muscularly rocking in one fell swoop. A second high point, "locked in, loaded," shoots off like steam escaping a pressure valve. Gritty guitars, tense percussion, and a seething swooping vocal turn are the sounds of emotional tension taken to the brink.
The other songs deepen the emotional trajectory and lure you into a multilayered realm in which susceptibility and strength are constantly in dialogue. Whether grieving or looking to get it out, "The Concession" provides. Yet the band continues to set its rarely cast intersection of architectonic songwriting and kinetic performance in the foreground, forcing you to physically and emotionally dance. The Buddyrevelles are a band unafraid to look you in the eye and dream widescreen. With "The Concession," they've made a loud, emotional record that feels both of the moment and out of time, a reminder that rock music still has something essential to shout.
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