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What I have in my sweaty hands today is a 25-minute, 6 song EP by a guitar-oriented instrumental art-rock trio.
According to the band s website, this EP explores Trance Lucid s darker side and the word new age is used to describe some of their other work. So it would appear that I lucked into the disc in their catalog that would suit me the best.
The songs are guitar driven and cinematic. They can play it fun and strangely quirky ( Perilous ) and they can be dark and foreboding ( Skating , A Burning Ship ) carrying a real sense of place in the production. I especially like the groove that develops in the title track; good driving music.
These guys can play with subtlety and style. No one can question their grasp of production and mastering. They ve made a high quality recording with lots of spatiality and breathing room.
The songs are nice and short, two of them clock in at under 3 minutes. They get in, say what they mean to say and get out without a lot of fuss and BS. Refreshing. There s no question that I could easily enjoy a CD of this kind of music that s twice this length.
My one knock is that there s not a lot of meat in the songwriting. There aren t any really memorable melodies and themes introduced that stick with me. I don t find myself humming along to any of these songs. It s like aural Chinese food, damn tasty at the time, but I m hungry for something else shortly after I consume it.
By the way, about that title- that s the British spelling of Colours ; pretty funny for a band from Oakland, CA. Is it an inside joke or pretension to something else?
Progressive Ears
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