Reemo, Colours

Posted on 24th Aug 09 by Jane Ward | 1

Colours is the energetic debut album from Kildare 5 piece Reemo. The band are Stephen Connolly, Paul McGlue, Conleth Dunne, Alan Connolly and Igor Biasini.

The album is a lot more polished than their earlier singles; it’s fairly lively and energetic enough to get any indie fan up on the dance floor shuffling. The first track on the album Run sets this tone, bouncy and lively but with a serious undercurrent of anguish which seems ubiquitous throughout the album.

One Day seems a little more experimental, at times the guitars in the background sound like they could be the soundtrack for a Wild West shootout. Circus has a serious R.E.M vibe circa Around The Sun. It’s more melodic and of the tracks on the album sounds like the most likely to be a mainstream hit. It’s powerful and hard not to like.

The lyrics can be at times really difficult. Verging on conversational rather than the usual snappy indie style of song writing. There was a tendency as well for the vocals to take over too much on some tracks such as Vampires and are drowned out on others like Chocolate. With some really memorable melodies on the album it’s frustrating when a song has a really powerful intro only for the music to fade into the background while the vocals take over.

As lively as the album is, the lyrics are actually very dark and quite bitter. The track list makes no attempt to hide the album’s dark side with track names like Holocaust, Vampire and Tsunami. Anthems for the jilted.

Colours will be available in shops from Friday 28^th August followed by an online digital release on September 4^th.

Drop-d Rating: 7/10

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