Colour TV - At Sunset

*image courtesy of the band & This Feeling.

South-West outfit Colour TV released their latest single, ‘At Sunset’, at the end of March. Recorded at Cube Studios, it was released via Tip Top Recordings.

When The Strokes released ‘Is This It?’ in 2001, it changed British culture forever. Its influence over The Libertines is perhaps its most powerful, causing them to drop their 60s paisley melodies and to inject adrenaline into their romantic prose.

Fast-forward 25years and a similar pattern can be seen forming between Fontaines D.C.’s masterful ‘Romance’ and the poetical dwellings of Colour TV. Their previous single ‘iBaby’ leaned into the album’s grandiose rumblings, and here, its directness comes to the fore through Jack Yeo’s marbling guitars. Where once everything was pure indie, it is now being fuelled by a welcome adrenaline and recklessness.

The results? Divine.

Key to their breakthrough moments a few years ago was frontman Sam Durneen’s poise and grace, reimaging what a young Morrissey, Bret Anderson, and Martin Rossiter could be in modern times. His vocals are now less key and utterly crucial to their success! His fragility and purity soar and tumble around Yeo’s bullish yet angelic guitars; together, they are the future of all great things in the UK guitar scene!