REVANGELS - Here Come The Stars

The hard-blues opener leaves no doubt: “The Way To The Stars” is the pass to stardom signed by Revangels, a Milanese outfit now on their second album. The sound is proud and visceral, redolent of tube amps, dust and sweat, with the ghost of Led Zeppelin walking arm in arm with the street-level urgency of Free and the genuine drive of musicians who have this music in their bones.
The album thrives on wild dynamics and muddy slow-downs, on sudden hard rock flare-ups and sturdy, rounded hooks that would work perfectly on radio airplay (the closing “A Spark In The Darkness” is a fine example). The production, proudly analogue and free of pointless modernisms, brings out the interplay of the band as a whole, capturing the impact and warmth of a group recording live, looking each other in the eye.

The speed of “Lost!”, but also the soft caresses of “The Prayer Of Jabez”, the super-saturated riffs of “You Gave Me All And Now You Leave”, alongside the tremolo guitars and soul inflections of “Come Back To The Stars”, are just some of the ingredients in this stylistic mix. And suddenly there's a lively, highly personal cover of “Angel Of Harlem” by U2, opened by a riff that pays homage to “Good Times Bad Times” by Zeppelin, just to make clear where their true loves lie.
Big seventies guitars, a relentless rhythm section, thoroughly convincing vocals for a record with international-grade depth. In an age of algorithmic perfection, their devotion to the cause of the most authentic, red-blooded rock sounds incredibly liberating. A record out of another era, which in its CD version also offers a bonus track, “The Way To The Stars”, recorded live at Abbey Road Studios in London.

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04/07/2026