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South Wales alt rockers COLOURS OF ONE (www.coloursofone.com ) charge forwards with their stunning album, Vessels, which lands on Friday. With high praise from Classic Rock Magazine, Louder, RockSound, and Powerplay, the band are destined to shine brightly. With all of this in mind, we exclusively asked the guys to give us this exclusive track by track breakdown for their upcoming album:
“Like Icarus Did:
A moody and ethereal wandering, guided by a finger-picked guitar line and Lewis’, rather than Michael’s, vocals. We wanted to start the album with something unexpected that “sets the scene” and draws the listener in whilst introducing them to the album’s overarching themes. Lyrically it’s about determination in overcoming hardship.
Craters Lip: https://youtu.be/N0Jlz1zjiVQ
A snarling, aggressive, energetic slap of alt rock to kick the album off proper. It’s about being on the edge of giving up completely, feeling as if the elements have taken their toll and all there’s left to do is to submit.
Eden: https://youtu.be/aQXDQVeE9wA
In contrast to the aggression or moodiness of the openers, Eden is an upbeat and bouncy tonic – sonically at least. It’s a commentary on trickle down economics, a sarcastic applause to concentrating wealth at top under the guise of helping the working classes from becoming feckless.
Nail In The Cause:
One for the stadiums – an anthem driven by chugging guitars and pounding drums. It’s about the growing trend to view people as irredeemable. There’s a danger personal growth will be disregarded completely and a fear that this could ultimately damage progressive causes.
Bones Of Hope: https://youtu.be/9vZlGAwei-s
Hope, however faint, even when stripped down to it’s bones, is still powerful. Wonderful things can grow from the smallest of hope, if you can keep it in focus. This is what this song is about.
To The River:
A jagged and tense slice of altrock. There’s a place, next to the river in his village, Michael would go to clear his head in his youth. The character in this song struggles with depression and questions of self worth and is going to the river to clear their head.
Stay Awake:
The palate cleanser for the halfway point of the album – a track stripped down to a single clean guitar and vocals. The song is the sombre and emotional story of the evening Michael saw his great-grandmother for the last time, visiting her in hospital to say goodbye.
Haunts- https://youtu.be/ccackGnDHfk
Sonically, this is our most ambitious song to date. We dared to go places that we had never gone before with stacked vocal harmonies, layered synths, and syncopated programmed beats colouring a prog structured blast of alt rock. Lyrically, it’s themed around the blatant lies and misinformation of the powerful.
Things That Have learned To Walk:
The last song we finished for the album so everything was thrown at it – including a horn trio – and it climaxes at a massive wall of sound at the end. Lyrically it’s about multiple personal scenarios, but the overarching theme is stoicism and knowing when to ask for help.
Runaway:
This is a straight up pop-rock song. The quickest song that we have ever written, jammed out together within 5 minutes – old school! Lyrically, it’s about feeling undervalued and underestimated, then considering whether to walk away completely or dig in and spite the doubters.
Control:
A song to drive to. It’s a message to that person who has been riding on your work and enjoying the fruits of your labour, but does not give you any acknowledgement, or is rather belittling of it.
Faithful:
A short sharp punk-edged guitar track, that is about the fall from a place of trust to a place of cynicism, and that though the trigger for the fall may have been to do with something very specific, it can influence your thinking on everything.
We Take Care Of Our Own:
This song is a response to those who protest international charity, citing we need to “take care of our own”. The idea that we should be drawing lines and creating borders for our generosity and compassion has never felt persuasive. Fundamentally, borders are imaginary lines.”
For more on the band, see – www.coloursofone.com
