(Muso's Guide, December 18, 2008)
Single review
Despite being the bearers of a name which calls to mind a foreboding biblical text packed with apocalyptic portent, The Revelations are an easy-on-the-eye three piece who appear to specialise in upbeat music. Far from delivering tragedy-laden messages of the future ruination of humanity, these peppy ladies do a nice line in fempop, coming on for all the world like B*Witched tackling the 2009 Eurovision entry.
‘It’s You’ kicks off like something that would soundtrack Super Mario on one of his merry little adventures. There follows a distinct chirpiness, and it would be churlish to suggest this is not a foot-tapping record.
Three mere minutes of pop perfection - The Revelations know how not to overstay a welcome - the song is probably what could be considered ‘unfeminist’ in the extreme, with assurances that “you’re my man” and “you’re all I think about every day”. But for all the modern take on a classic act, that is in the full spirit of the 1960s girl group pop.
For the grammatically squeamish, the scheme, “work out… watch out… look out… find out…” is bound to grate, taken, as it is, right from the aforementioned B*Witched’s dusty rhyming dictionary. But there’s so much bounce, life, and love in ‘It’s You’, that it is impossible to grimace as The Revelations chirrup away.
Maybe, in 2008, the happening of The Pipettes made this cheesy girl group comeback possible - or maybe it was just the Sheila’s Wheels ads. Whichever, in these doomy times, The Revelations are just that. Dance to it at a Christmas disco or risk eternal damnation. Probably.
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