Foreseen by oracles and foretold by angels, the coming together of rapper Brandon ‘BEZ’ (B Easy) Evans and beatmaker / producer Jonah Swilley was, by their own admission, a divine appointment. Both halves musically and spiritually forged in the twin flames of Georgia ׳s Pentecostal churches and grassroots hip-hop scene, Revival Season tell straight-shooting tales of our golden age – chop, cops, badass bitches, self-snitches; drug-dealing and revolution – chronicling and critiquing the culture over baselines and beats that kick squarely in the teeth with a platform boot. Much in the spirit of Swilley’s teenage bedroom beatmaking, their debut album ‘Golden Age Of Self Snitching’ was pieced together largely selfsufficiently, written both remotely and in person, and recorded between a temporary studio space in a health centre and an ad-hoc setup in Swilley’s dining room. A skeleton team of outside musicians contributed additional parts – with Jordan Manly (Mattiel) and Rupert Brown (Roy Ayres, Raf Rundell) on drums, Shaheed Goodie on guest MC vocals for the jagged, spiralling ‘Pump’, and Raf Rundell (The 2 Bears), with whom Revival Season had previously made the Outernational mixtape (“equal parts Prince Paul and King Tubby”) on hand as ‘vibe consultant’, bringing additional production to a handful of tracks.