There are plenty of good rock bands from the South, and there are plenty of bands who create a reasonable facsimile of the pickup truck classics of the ’70s. But very few bands have capably grafted their sweaty, mosquito-slapping heritage onto a contemporary, forward-looking rock sound. If Band of Horses is the elegiac, atmospheric version of Southern Indie Rock, then Oxford, MS-based Colour Revolt is the sound of overdriven guitars, archly poetic lyrics and the occasional jam-plosion dipped into a humid bath of I-don’t-give-a-fuck. Eschewing retro-oriented posturing, the band also refuses to indulge in a postmodern, Oxford American-style biscuits-and-gravy shtick. Instead, Colour Revolt does what Southern boys have always done best: taken what suits them and made it their own. The result is a dark, expansive and often incendiary record that puts forth its “mood” in a forceful, dramatic manner.
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