Chicago-based Color Radio\u2019s music is strongly characterized by bountiful guitar layers, which are moody to say the least. But at no point in the band\u2019s debut Architects<\/i> does the lushness of the guitars get overbearing. The band doesn\u2019t let their music drown into the haze of guitars; like a more mainstream alt-rock band, Color Radio balances their weirdness with music that is direct and free of false fronts.<\/p>\n
The album\u2019s more straightforward moments have an unambiguous Brit-pop vibe, which in their partly Dodgy and partly Teenage Fanclub way, have the air of the typical alt-pop numbers of that period. Tracks like \u201cElephant Room\u201d and \u201cTowers\u201d have this unmistakable tone. <\/p>\n
However, most of Architects <\/i>is a lot tenser, as Color Radio tries to get darker. But the band treads this terrain carefully so that they don\u2019t make grandiose rock anthems out of these numbers, which come in different flavors. Bold guitars hovering indistinctly like faint shadows are almost present on these tracks like religious rituals. The band has an odd resemblance to Coldplay (their more rock-leaning cuts) on the tracks \u201cVespers\u201d and \u201cQuiet House.\u201d On \u201cSharks,\u201d the band has a more retro sound, like likes of Echo And The Bunnymen and even hints of The Verve. Lead vocalist Jonathan Ifergan\u2019s singing has got as much to do with this as the music itself.<\/p>\n
Architects <\/i>never gets too dark or too poppy or too psychedelic. It maintains enough distance from the extremes. Still, it doesn\u2019t find itself restrained or reluctant. Color Radio finds enough freedom in the space of this record to let their guitars spread out enough that they can ably hold the album together without getting too overpowering. It allows keyboards in the sanctimonious space of the guitars and let is unassumingly create artful mystery in the hidden crevices of the music. Color Radio is colorful, but in the most uneccentric way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":30771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8753],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-42445","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-color-radio","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42445"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}