Red Sun Revival
Embers

British quartet Red Sun Revival has recently released their new EP Embers that follows their debut album that was released back in 2012. This new EP isn’t really gifted with the most inviting cover artwork, then again, how many EPs are? It doesn’t seem to be a priority to have good cover art on EPs or singles and maybe it doesn’t matter as it is the music that counts and EPs tends to be made to garner interest for eventual albums and such. I have no idea when a possible album it to be out but the quartet offers us a quartet of songs for us to enjoy.

Gothic rock is what we get when we open up the cover art and place the disc on the correct location and the reader start reading the tracks and they sound through the speakers. The sound is quite good, maybe not something that stands out from the rest of the genre and that also includes the stylistics, but as I stated it is well made and produced so fans of the genre will not care as much about the shortcomings in individuality as a reviewer would. The variation is there but there are so few tracks that it can be difficult to get into it before it ends. But then you can play it on repeat to get enough length and substance to it.

I think it is a good EP, all the songs are of a rather high quality. Sure, for those of us who hear a lot of music and want the new stuff we hear to be fresh and exciting it can be a bit disappointing to notice that it doesn’t really break any new ground. I think it is a good album but that it will mainly (or exclusively) appeal to the fans of the genre, the rest of us will find it no different than most stuff that we have heard from that genre. It is well made and everything and to me it has worked quite well for a number of car rides between different places, for that it is a nice little disk and most of the journeys I make are more than long enough to get through the entire thing.

I think that the first track Mistakes and the third track Broken are the sharpest ones on the album, they are good songs while I think the rest of the tracks are good as well but not as good. The ending title track for example, it is just too long in the ending part making the end feel a bit too dragged out for my tastes. But in the end I think that this is a solid piece of musical engineering but at the same time I have a really hard time seeing the real point in EPs over just a few tracks, why not just make an album? It couldn’t be that hard to write two or three more tracks.

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