COLOUR REVOLT
COLOUR REVOLT
Alternative Press
Colour Revolt - ‘The Cradle’
4 out of 5 stars
Colour Revolt have never been ones to pander to fans. They left behind the epic, Modest Mouse-esque freakouts of their self-titled EP for subdued, bluesy rock on their first LP, 2008's Plunder, Beg, And Curse. Now they're infecting their Southern- and blues-affected brand of slow-cooked indie rock with bouts of restrained tension and vaguely impetuous guitars. Opener "8 Years" is the most straightforwardly aggressive song in the band's canon, an autobiographical, jaunty rock number recounting the band's history and misadventures. "Everything Is The Same" is a perfectly rustic, acoustic breather with yearning tones sprinkled across, while the band get their Cure on with "Each Works." Frankly, that song title sums up The Cradle, as well: No matter what Colour Revolt decide to do on these tracks, each is successful. (NEW FEAR/DUALTONE; dualtone.com <http://dualtone.com> ) Brian Shultz
Colour Revolt’s members first played together while they were high school students at Jackson Academy in Jackson, MS under the name Foxxe, then changing to Fletcher and releasing a full length entitled “Friends Don’t Speak”. They then moved on to become college students at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. They take their current name from Edwin Abbott’s mathematical novel, Flatland.
The group had intended to record their first EP in Mississippi in August of 2005, but Hurricane Katrina interrupted the recording session, and so they recorded it in the house of local label Esperanza Plantation’s owner. The self-titled EP came out in December of 2005; following this the group toured with Brand New and signed to Interscope Records, who re-released the EP on their subsidiary Tiny Evil in October 2006.
The group has also performed at SXSW and toured with Dinosaur Jr., Black Lips, Okkervil River, Menomena, Paper Rival, Explosions in the Sky, Malajube, Anathallo, and Manchester Orchestra.
They then signed with Fat Possum Records; their full-length debut, produced by Clay Jones, was released on April 1, 2008. In 2008, Boston newspaper The Phoenix named them the Best New Band from Mississippi.
POMEGRANATES
Pomegranates are a band from Cincinnati that began as a fun project between two friends, Jacob Merritt and Isaac Karns, eventually growing into a four-piece with Joey Cook and, most recently, Dan Lyon. Over a span of two years, the band released two albums, 2008’s Everything Is Alive and 2009’s TJ Lipple-produced Everybody, Come Outside!, both of which drew the immediate attention of independent radio stations like KEXP, WOXY, and KCRW, and critical praise from the likes of Spin magazine for the band’s very sudden and prodigious growth in sound.
