The Reds, Pinks And Purples – The Town That Cursed Your Name – CD

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Whereas the 2022 collection Summer at Lands End was a softer, gauzier world, The Reds, Pinks And Purples’ latest effort The Town That Cursed Your Name is heavier, with fuzzed lines running through. ‘Leave It All Behind’ starts out with an amorphous whine but quickly launches into something both supremely melodic and buzzing at the edges. ‘Here Comes the Lunar Hand’ is an impressionist geometry that seems to capture the albums themes without telling you how. Lyrically, Donaldson embraces the earnestness of his heroes Paul Westerberg and Grant McLennan. Sonically, late ’80s college rock is filtered through song-forward lo-fi acts like East River Pipe and House of Tomorrow-era Magnetic Fields. Like the images that accompany his releases flowers and residential street scenes are pushed to the breaking point with colour Donaldsons songs are at the same time dazzling and lurid, beautiful and burdened, not unlike life as a musician around here.