Album Review

Colour – Unicorns

• 23rd Apr 2009

Percussion combos that have the impact of a grizzly bear knocking at your door gives some wildness to the clattering backdrop, acting as a scaffold supporting singer Alan Welsh’s frantic moments. George Reid tones down his guitar for the more stirring vocal snippets that adds mystery and chutzpah to the patchy and slightly schizophrenic sojourn ‘Unicorns’.

There is enough bounding rhythm and bleeding heart to tick the boxes required from an experimental outfit, but it is the tempo rising and dropping that maximises the appeal of this moody quartet.

‘Run Like You’re Being Chased’, maintains a more even clatter and the vocals stay at a mildly frantic pace, allowing the chugging percussion of J.K. Trood to step up in prominence and, whilst not being as striking as the A-Side, it’s still spliced with enough of an off-kilter touch to keep the interest level above average.

Colour creates a musical mural of intrigue, searching and self belief to keep up the interest of those wanting a genuine alternative to the modern melody laden indie that is currently more prominent than a column about Jade Goody.