Le Rev

It’s no coincidence that Le Rev is a Los Angeles band. With its theatrical lyrics and guttural guitar riffs, Le Rev dances a fine line between Hollywood histrionics and indie eastside aesthetics. As lead singer, C.C. Sheffield can downshift from whisper to scream in a drumbeat, alternately channeling personas as varied as a French chanteuse, larger-than-life diva and little girl lost to belt out emotionally-charged stories over Nico Chiotellis’s anthemic/angular guitar work. Equal parts heartbreak and pop hooks, Lev Rev is a bloody valentine with introspective lovelorn lyrics pitted against a blaring sonic soundscape.Le Rev is the brainchild of guitarist/producer Nico Chiotellis and vocalist C.C. Sheffield, who penned all the songs together and coined a unique sound that’s been described as Blondie meets Blonde Redhead. The songs are a scrapbook culmination of the four years since Sheffield and Chiotellis started collaborating. As Sheffield explains “I grew up in Tucson, Arizona and worked at a music venue so I was always involved in music but I never had a band because I was raised super religious and girls were supposed to just get married. I ran away at 17 and I moved to L.A. when I was 18 living in a hostel, then in my van in Echo Park. Nico met me when I first got my apartment in Echo Park”. AsChiotellis explains “ Shortly after I moved to LA I was at a bar and this girl runs up and up pulls me from the booth to the dancefloor, then disappears. Four months later we met again and wrote 3 songs. A few days after that we saw a painting named Le Rev. There was never a question.”The two began playing raw acoustic shows at open mike nights around the Los Angeles and quickly became a staple on the city’s music scene, playing venues like Spaceland, The Viper Room and Dim Mak’s Cinespace Tuesdays and garnering a notorious reputation for shows as high-energy as they were unpredictable.



 

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