THE DRONES

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“House” is the closest Abe Vigoda gets to replicating the peaky highs of Skeleton, but the sound is darker and denser than before. There’s a real heft to the guitars, and they clutter into wonderful disarray in the song’s final third, forming a perfect segue into “Endless Sleeper.” The combination of that song, and the following “Wild Heart,” displays Vidal’s newfound penchant for quiet introspection, providing a fantastic centerpiece to this EP, which contains more riveting ideas and modes of expression than most full-length albums.

There’s an undercurrent of unease, a feeling that something’s not quite right here, that runs through each song on Reviver. It’s in marked contrast to the band’s jovial presence in interviews and the fizzy juvenilia of Skeleton. But this new maturity suggests that Abe Vigoda is not a band that’s going to be easily pinned down. A few touchstones occasionally emerge; their fondness for beautiful disorientation is reminiscent of the Swell Maps’ A Trip to Marineville, and they share the cut-glass guitar aesthetic of early Wire. In fact, Abe Vigoda seems positively destined to take a similarly perverse career path to the likes of Colin Newman, Bruce Gilbert and Nikki Sudden, and it will be fascinating to see where they head next. – Prefix Mag

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