Brave Citizens - Revolutions
Record Label: Self Released
Release Date: Dec 07, 2007

Brave Citizens - Revolutions
Record Label: Self Released
Release Date: Dec 07, 2007

Reviewed By André Monnéy

It’s amazing what break ups and time apart can create. I’m sure fans were extremely irate and disappointed when Halfway To Nowhere called it quits, but who could have foreseen the blessing that would follow. While former band mates, Andrew Capra and Adam Bialik, took time off to pursue their own musical careers, they could not help but show their personal works in progress to each other. Each time these fragments were sent to each other, the two musicians began to add more until these pieces became full songs. It was apparent that the two needed each other and from their Brave Citizens was born.

Never really forcing catchiness down your throat, Revolutions picks up with the pop-indie infused, “The Same Way”, which really gets your heart, mind and body stirring. “The Same Way” carries that sense of emotion that literally makes you want to frolic through a field and reminisce on how good life is and before you can really fully rejoice this new light in your life, “How Much Longer?” strikes. With the dim keyboards and the insisting rhythm of the bass and drums, it’s hard to ignore the piercing somberness in Andrew Capra voice.

Capra’s voice is the light breaking through the fog of the intensity of these songs, especially over the gloomy, Depeche Mode feel. Even some of the dreary keyboards, Brave Citizens really picks up the mood with the sensations they give through the music, which really is why we listen to music more than half of the time. It’s all about the feeling that it gives you. Brave Citizens provides that natural excitement without the need of some marketing gimmick or “big reputable band members” (although some may consider ex-Halfway To Nowhere members “big guys”). The result of all these sensations and the devotion of duo made in heaven is Revolutions; a diamond in the rough.

Recommended If You Like: Further Seems Forever, Depeche Mode, Radiohead