"Everybody’s gotta wait and see / What gets cut out and then what will make the movie / The happy ending’s always bringing out the critic in me..."
Stepping into the beautifully cool and raucous boogie garage rock of "I Wanted Light / Between" by Oregon's The Color Study and I couldn't help but think of Mott The Hoople. Scott Oliphant and his bandmates infuse the same kind of shifting 70's atmospheres of Hoople's Roll Away The Stone (1974) colliding with their Honaloochie Boogie (1973) with dashes of T-Rex. The blasting horns, pounding keys ramping up against chunky guitars and feral drums while Scott's strident vox wail completes a picture that feels like a joyful brawl.
"Why can’t you say you’re sorry / Why can’t you just listen / Are you the sum of every / Mistake you’ve made since then..."
About 4 minutes in the track flows into the darkly moody coda ("Between") with an emotional heaviness that eventually gives way to grand ascensions that feels almost Beatle-esque in tone. A total artful surprise. The Color Study is lead by Scott Oliphant, and features Melissa Atillo on keys and vocals, Matt Jackson on bass, Miguel Mendoza on horns, Andy Jacobs on drums and vocals and Steve Reinhardt on lead guitar.
"Why can’t you say you’re sorry / Why can’t you just listen / Are you the sum of every / Mistake you’ve made since then..."
About 4 minutes in the track flows into the darkly moody coda ("Between") with an emotional heaviness that eventually gives way to grand ascensions that feels almost Beatle-esque in tone. A total artful surprise. The Color Study is lead by Scott Oliphant, and features Melissa Atillo on keys and vocals, Matt Jackson on bass, Miguel Mendoza on horns, Andy Jacobs on drums and vocals and Steve Reinhardt on lead guitar.
"I Wanted Light / Between" if from The Color Study's new upcoming album "Future Past Present Tense" dropping November 11th, 2022.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Scott Oliphant has a lot of big thoughts and ideas in his head. His extensive conceptual process produces narrative tracks that speak earnestly, especially within the songs he makes as The Color Study. It was a trend he started with the project’s self-titled debut, and it’s one he’s continuing with their upcoming album Future-Past-Present Tense.
While the band’s eponymous debut record was consciously mired by the sadness of a relationship lost, Future-Past-Present Tense takes a turn for the more heady and existentially philosophical, though still in some aspect or another touching on the impact interpersonal relationships can leave. He began pondering the dynamics of these connections - how even the slightest interactions have the potential to change the course of one’s life, how they’ll live and how they may, or may not, experience love in life. That’s how the album title itself came to be, serving as a mini grammatical roadmap for how an interaction that hasn’t even come to be yet could affect who you are in the present, and how you’ll remember your past.
The record’s title track is most indicative of these sentiments, zeroing in on how interconnectedness can bring chaos into one's life. Slow acoustics and horns steadily build up into an explosion of sound, much like reaching the a-ha moment of the impression a person or situation has made on you. “How many times have we met?/ How many lines are running parallel and never connect?” Oliphant lyrically questions mere seconds into the song. Everyone’s answers to these will be different, but the resonance is the same - whether or not you believe in fate, destiny or serendipity, you never know who or what might change your life.
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