Talk In Colour - 'One By One'

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After a three year hiatus, UK based future pop collective Talk In Colour firmly re-establish themselves with new single, ‘One By One’.

I was first introduced to Talk In Colour off the back of their 2013 EP, ‘Rushes’ and I had the pleasure of seeing the outfit perform live at at Charlie Wright's Music Lounge shortly after the EP release. What initially struck me about Talk In Colour is their ability to intoxicate, and enchant. But they also possess the ability to unnerve.

’One By One’ is the first single to be taken from Talk In Colour’s forthcoming second album, ‘Half Life’. Completed and mixed during lockdown, ‘One By One’ explores “the polarising and accelerating effect of social media on both creativity and society at large.” Featuring moody syncopated beats, shadowy dystopian synth and heavy keys, ‘One By One, is a dark and compelling return for the five-piece.

Singer Mary Erskine teams up on the vocals with band member Christopher Bangs to deliver the outfit’s trademark spellbinding harmonies that make melancholia sound soothing. ‘One By One’ captures the feeling of being caught between waking and sleep. It’s a deeply textured track that swirls with disorientating textures on its most layered segments, and embraces dark, despondency on its more minimal arrangements.

Drawing from experimental, folk, cinematic, post-rock and electronic influences, Talk In Colour are dab hands at creating evocative soundscapes that stroke the cerebral.

Words of Karla Harris

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