Name: Brilliant ColorsFrom: San Francisco, California
Story: Slumberland Records' latest signing
Sound: Twee revival, ho!
Cosmic coincidence: the title of Brilliant Colors' debut album is Introducing, and its front-cover is type set in the same way as this blog post heading. Woah!
As introduced by Introducing, the colors Brilliant Colors' summon aren't so brilliant; more muted, bleeding, and dulled. Recording in such low fidelity that guitar shorts out into fuzzy static, the San Franciscan trio make music employing 'poor' audio quality as a form of time-travel; the record's washed-out shades hoping to evoke an aged quality, as if we're listening to a document from a distant day.
In the mind of Brilliant Colors mastermind Jess Scott, the distant day is some lost summer eve of an imaginary, mythologized 1986, and her band is playing a fantasy bill alongside Talulah Gosh and the Shop Assistants. At its best, Introducing captures the spirit of the mythical summer's night, in which anything —any dizzy daydream— seems possible.
Photo © David Armstrong
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