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Colors In The Air – On The Inside
Think of the morning after…
When I decided to write a review about Colors In The Air I had absolutely no idea as to how am I gonna bloody do it. I first thought that their music is way too poppy and… it scared the hell outta me.
They use a lot of effects, their singer is able to hit high notes, their name suggests that they may be happy. What does the last one have to do with anything? It’s simple – how many happy musicians do you know that are actually good? Bob Marley is out of the picture… he had his own thing going on, if you know what I mean. Musician, in order to be any good, should be miserable… to a certain extent of course. And still, despite all those supposedly bad things that I just said about CITA… I think that these guys are bloody awesome…
Having said that, however, they aren’t something I’d listen to on a daily basis, but again it’s a matter of taste. You know how sometimes you listen to an EP or just some random song that was recorded with three mics and two acoustic guitars and it just gets under your skin? You know how you then go and BUY their album because you were so deeply in love with that one song and you’re hoping against hope that the rest will be just as good. And then it leaves you heart-broken and somewhat disappointed because that one song that you’ve listened was stripped of all it’s clothing and the glitter was washed off… And you loved that song for what it was…Think of the morning after a great sex with a person you met twelve hours ago and madly fell in love with. You look at them lying there in all their simple, naked glory… and you still feel the same way as you did yesterday.
This was the case with Colors In The Air. I’m not implying that I fell deeply in love with their music, no I’m sorry but I didn’t, but the morning after looked just as good as the evening before. I first heard them on their Toronto EP and despite all those little imperfections and flaws in production – I thought they were really really good. I also had a chance to listen to their tracks umixed and let me tell you something… they do use a lot of effects and their singer can, in fact, hit high notes, but fcuk me, they sound awesome even unmixed.
When I talk about On The Inside it all comes down to a few simple things. The instrumentation is a fluid motion and once you let the current carry you away – you don’t want to get out. The vocals keep echoing inside of your head for quite some time after you turned your stereo off and you keep humming the melody for the entirety of your day. Well, I know I did.
CITA are on the right track to the top. They’ll get there. They deserve it.
Don’t you think that they won’t do it… yes they’ll do it, yes they’ll do it.
On The Inside 9.0/10
