By Zachary Swickey on May 11th, 2011 in
Opening track “Beard” begins with church bells chiming to a space warble that belongs in the Twilight Zone before cymbal-heavy drumming crashes into the picture. The eerie vocals provided by Ryan Hendrix sound reminiscent of the serpent coaxing you to taste the fruit. The album’s first single “Tog” has a wicked and catchy, deep drum beat that slows down the pace, but turns up the jamming. At only 1:45 long, “Jack & Jill (A Duet)” summarizes Colourmusic in a nutshell quite nicely: disorienting guitars, nasty (in a good way) bass, and spastic animal-like drum beats.
An epic, 10-minute jam with minimal vocals, “The Little Death (In Five Parts)” is one of the album’s highlights: echoing guitar plucks, a grungy synth beat, and dissonant piercing sounds, all scratching at your ears in the nicest way possible. The bass throughout the record provides some awesome low-end, dirty noise. On the uplifting “Yes!” Hendrix begins waxing philosophical: “Everything I am/Is everything I d /Everything I love/Is everything I am.” The tune’s fuzzed-out guitars work great with the marching of the drums that really turn the song into a fun, loving anthem.
Opting to not make the same record twice, Colourmusic’s latest is not an evolution of their sound, but rather a reinvention. The gamble was worth it as they have improved as artists and presented an album where you never know what will come next.
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