Colour Haze – She Said

1.
2. This
3. Transformation
4. Breath
5. Slowdown
6. Rite
7. Stand In…
8. Grace
” had been on a hot streak of genre-defining records that included 2003’s “Los Sounds de Krauts”, 2004’s “” and 2006’s “Tempel”, but even “All” couldn’t anticipate the explosion of bands who have emerged in the subsequent years who’ve taken influence from ‘s tonally warm, jam-ready aesthetic. With “”, they emerge as leaders of a scene they helped create. Whether it’s younger acts like Sungrazer, The Machine and Wight or their peers as much as they have any, have had a pervasive effect on their surrounding European scene ‘ one can hear elements of theirs in American bands like Elder as well ‘ and “” is their first album to be released since that scene around them solidified as a group of bands touring and issuing works of their own. So even in the timing, much-hindered though it has been, “” captures at a special moment in their career.”
“The two component discs of “” set up individual progressions, starting off slowly with the opening title-track and more immediately with “Breath” on the second disc, but each winding up in a grand and progressive exploration of a more evolved scope. “Transformation” closing disc one with the inclusion of a horn section and “Grace” culminating the second disc and “” as a whole with a string arrangement playing off Koglek’s guitars, which themselves are layered acoustics and electrics over backwards swirls similar to those that showed up on the “All” title-track. Though it brims with this mastery of the heavy psychedelic form and clearly knows its place in the current European milieu, “” is no less laid back and unpretentious than has ever been, whatever the depths of the arrangements or the complexities of the structure.”
All That Is Heavy, The Obelisk
2LP album
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