Reverie Sound Revue

from www.shrednews.com

"Your foot hits the pavement, you feel the city and propel into the flow. Negotiate the kaleidoscope of traffic. Sidewalk slipstream. The underground. Reality blurs and you are floating in space. Drifting, you hear the vibration of a future daydream. This is Reverie Sound Revue." 

-boompa.ca

Those were the lines that first ignited my interest to checking out the group. There is something about their music that draws me a picture of an artist's life in the middle of an urban landscape: Clad in a layer of bold printed fabrics, a girl walks in her chucks with one hand on her jean, and the other holding a sling bag in place. The afternoon sun hits her thick-framed sunglasses and she turns to gaze at a store window, a collection of vintage whatnot behind the glass. She smiles in admiration over the grunge-painted boxes and nostalgic sepia photos. She turns up the volume of her iPod and takes in the moment in awe. This is the music she listens to.

A combination of base strings, casual beats, and sleepish melodies sends in hypnotic waves that transcends their music into an imaginative auditory experience. This is the kind of music I would like to hear in themed cafes as I sip a cup of latte late into the afternoon, or the one playing in the background as I walk through an arcade of quirky artist-owned shops.

Cover for Reverie Sound Revue's self-titled album (2009)

A Canadian indie rock band that I had mistaken as a Britpop indie band, the music they do is not for everyone, but it is for artists who love coffee. There is a certain allure in the sound they produce and being a visual artist who appreciates the kind of underground music now classified as "indie", it makes sense that an artist loves something that was once unclassified due to its hippie nature. Led by the distinctive vocals of Lisa Lobsinger, her soft haunting voice floats just above the rhythms that I can only describe as vintage-pop-rock.