Coloratura (Them's The Brakes)

Do you visualize colors with your music? I'm not synaesthetic, but I have awesome ideas of color that can burst up hard and sudden for certain songs, so I make sure to have them on when I want to draw or make icons or fuck around at doing origami, even though I'm not the greatest ever at any of these hobbies.

The colors, Duke; the colors.

Slam has the most amazingly incredible blue intro that ripples down in white and into a hard copper-golden hip-hop sample before muddying out; the song on the average is a hard red-brown. Sorry there's a half-naked man flashin' him rolls atchu.

IS THIS BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSS REALLY STRONG ENOUGH.

Tigerlily is this amazing orchid-pink-orange assault that gets brighter and more as you crank the volume. Something in the drum kit is this amazing BRIGHT pink, pop pop sizzle.

Deer Stop is green, grey green black green, deep forest moss, and it smells like a paper mill. I am not making that up. Felt Mountain is the only album about which I have ever had an idea of smell, and it is the smell of a paper mill.

...I don't know either.

Rasputina songs tend to have these little licks and pops in the yellow-to-green spectrum. Fletcher Christian lives at the top of a golden mountain with titanium-white cliffs.

In Old Yellowcake is a notable brown-red-indigo exception.

And put your face in the gutter of a snakepit
And turn the page on a story that has long since found a home

I now have some kind of overload headache and a feeling like an itch I can't reach. So. There you are.