This time we are leaving quite far from the Scandinavian countries since our destination is South America which is not necessarily famous for a large reservoir of melodic rock formations. And yet, this young group 'Revlin Project' has all the assets to make itself known because, created in 2015 by 'Nilver Perez' and made up of artists from Colombia and Spain, they released a first album in 2017 under the name of their leader (see here) and make themselves known their country until the signing with the Danish label 'Lions Pride Music' which leads to this first album 'Trascender'. Musically, we are immersed for 45 minutes in an AOR of the 80s with melodies all as melodic as each other and they have nothing to envy to the best formations of the genre and the comparisons with 'Autumn's Child', 'W.E.T.', 'Eclipse' or even 'Palace' to name only groups that have released an album recently, are fully justified. Everything is done to have a good time with, first of all, catchy compositions like 'World Within', 'Live Again', 'Face to Face' or even 'Keep Holding On' but they also have talent for quieter atmospheres with for example the remarkable 'Take Me to You' and 'So Alive' without forgetting the beautiful ballad 'Til the End' placed at the end of the album.
In short, needless to add, this first album of 'Revlin Project' is a pure delight of AOR which should turn in loop for a lot of amateurs of melodic rock bringing us back to the best of 80 years... | |
