Artist.......: Submotion Orchestra
Album........: Colour Theory
Label........: Counter records
Genre........: Electronic
Catnr........: COUNTDNL076
Source.......: WEB
Rip.date.....: 2016-02-27
Str.date.....: 2016-02-19
Quality......: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://submotionorchestra.bandcamp.com/album/colour-theory
track title time
1. Submotion Orchestra - Red Dress 4:36
2. Submotion Orchestra featuring Billy Boothroyd 5:10
- More Than This
3. Submotion Orchestra - Kimono 4:38
4. Submotion Orchestra - In Gold 5:36
5. Submotion Orchestra - Amira 4:59
6. Submotion Orchestra featuring Andrew Ashong - 5:37
Needs
7. Submotion Orchestra featuring Ed Thomas - 3:32
Empty Love
8. Submotion Orchestra featuring Still - Jaffa 5:08
9. Submotion Orchestra - Illusions 4:47
10. Submotion Orchestra featuring Catching Flies 5:32
- Ao
Runtime 49:35
Size 114.03
Release Notes:
After the success of 2014's Alium, Submotion Orchestra raise the bar yet again
with their new album, Colour Theory. Renowned for their stunning live
performances, for "smoky jazz, skittering live percussion and swooping synths"
(Mojo), the band have this time taken a conscious decision to focus their energy
and attention on to their production, shaping a record of immense poise and epic
scope, where attention to detail and shape has resulted in a new dynamism and
contemporary sheen. As producer Dom Ruckspin puts it, "we wanted to go somewhere
radically different." While Colour Theory is indeed radically different, it also
stays true to what made Submotion Orchestra so exciting to begin with.
From the opening bars of Jaffa, it's easy to see this record is a step up. The
sheer space the band create in their music is breathtaking. A slice of
broken-house groove dripping with melancholy and post-club longing, it shows the
confidence and style the group have in abundance. And with Ruby Wood taking
something of a sabbatical to focus on motherhood, the band have managed to mix
beautiful instrumental moments like Amira with a stellar cast of guests. Billy
Boothroyd uses his choral background to great effect on the sweet, poised More
Than This. The wonderful Andrew Ashong (Sound Signature/ Which Way) delivers one
of the standout moments on Needs. But then again, In Gold, a sparse, hip
hop-inflected slowburner, reminds us how just good Ruby is and the work she
delivers with sometime Chase & Status collaborator Ed Thomas on Empty Love just
confirms it. Red Dress, a production collaboration with Royce Wood Jr, is the
kind of smooth, slick r&b, that places the band in a continuum with The XX and
London Grammar, adding an epic jazz-aesthetic all their own. The album closes
with Ao, a shimmering, melancholy slo-mo house groove featuring the up and
coming talents of Catching Flies. There are moments of sublime poise and beauty
throughout.
This is a group which has now found the perfect balance between the chops of
their seven members as individual musicians and the needs of the collective to
shape this into taut, brilliant, warm and elegant music. With a recent sold-out
show at the Barbican in London as one of the closing performances of the EFG
London Jazz Festival and a show coming up at the Shepherd's Bush Empire next
March, this is a band who are already well-loved and acclaimed as live
performers. With Colour Theory they're set to match and even better that as
recording artists.
RLS-Crc: 434F4A:E0E327E21572BF