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It’s never just a revolution, it is the awakening of new habits, of putting aside former temptations and services to rulers and leaders who don’t have your best interests at heart; if we take up the arms provided us, reason, wisdom, and common sense, it is possible to see these weapons used proactively and with mass effect…if we can agree on a common discourse to put to those who speak only in misery and tyranny.

It is never Just A Revolution, it is the expression of discontent made beautiful, given a face, a name, and in times that we live in, where disharmony and reckless governance has made millions of lives intolerable, where old grudges and building in the name of empire is once more a stain, a shadow, on existence, to see that expression, never mind how micro, or outlandish, have a heart exposed by art and artist alike, is a glorious moment.

So it is to Southampton’s Regent, that the uprising continues, and in their new album, Just A Revolution, the spin of snarling indie rock takes its place in the minds of the listener, and acts as a guide, a conduit, the mutineer in the imagination of the one with the album in their hands, and allows the meanings, the vibe, and the strength of each song to infiltrate and throw revolt into the air with a pulse of music that is satisfying and clear.

Through passages of music experience and gained perspective such as Dirty Little Sinner, Rocks My Soul, Blow My Mind, Don’t You Wanna Play, and Seven Seas, Regent’s Ben Rooke, Chris Woolf, Luke Trundell, and George Grattan take their first full length album into the world and give the shoulders of the apathetic and the supposedly beaten and remind them that with glory and change, first off you must alter your belief, and then you must rage with power and ambition.

Revolution is a state of mind as well as a desire to see the status quo destroyed, it is arguably time we accepted that an uprising of thought is the only path open to us, and one captured with spirit by Regent.

Regent’s Just A Revolution is out now.

Ian D. Hall