Colour Revolt "Plunder, Beg, and Curse" (Fat Possum)
By Ryan Harig
Monday. Apr 07, 3:54 PM
Visceral and real in a way few bands are.

Colour Revolt really are one of the few bands I can count on my hand that are out there doing really surprising things right now. Fact is, I saw them live a couple months ago on a whim, in a venue I was completely astonished to find them in: some backwoods Michigan high school bubblegum teeny bopper place where they must have been ill informed of the circumstances. I watched a couple local/touring bands play some crap to kissing sophomore kids who sang along, and then… in awe, I watched as the kids ran scared from the bombast blow of Colour Revolt, whose Plunder, Beg, and Curse I believe is going to take the indie underground world for all it’s worth. They blew me away, playing mostly songs from the full length. They were awesome. Their music was loud, triumphant, visceral, and real. And their album is a complete, all encompassing work of rock and roll that is exactly what I witnessed that night and more. What I witnessed was huge. Like the rising of a new wave I didn't see coming (but that is all the more welcome), breathing new life into a tired scene.

Plunder, Beg, and Curse, which starts at a rampant pace with "Naked and Red," runs its course straight from beginning to end with the pulse of its three guitars pushing hard on the propulsive drums and thumping bass. The words and pitch perfect vocals of guitarist Jesse Coppenbarger bring an even more real and dirty feel to the music. If anyone reading this is a fan at all of their EP, there will be much to rejoice and delight here, as Coppenbarger’s voice sparks much of the raw emotion that their debut EP held. Each song has its own feel and its own story to tell. Colour Revolt are a band that turn making beautiful music into an art: sounding like it’s trembling and about to explode at any moment. Much like a ticking time bomb, it’s something at once exciting and all the more startling and scary. An approach with a flare of their home state of Mississippi thrown in for equal measure, Plunder, Beg, and Curse is spellbinding and terrific, magical and fantastic. It’s rock music played the way it should be played, with a disregard for what people have continued to keep doing for decades: making the same processed crap. Everyone should be getting in line for this one come April. It’s gonna be huge. Godspeed to this band: I wish them all the luck and joy they deserve. Easily one of my best of ‘08 so far.
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Ryan Harig

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