honeyrude
the color blue
(Shifting Sounds)
Having dribbled a debut single last fall exuding big promise, Austin’s Honeyrude bags the EP they promised, acing an LP instead with the potency of a Porsche 968 Convertible purring down the parkway. As he was on “Roger McLain” (included), Ian Lund is a guitar mastermind, gusting Black Swan Lane, Scenic, “Language of Flowers” Pale Saints, Harry Dingman, and Johnny Marr-ish gales into hard shards that flash and fizz, careen, wail, crash, and sputter—pretty dazzling. And with blonde bastion Jess Ledbetter adding lulling, stout vocals that sound much like Long Blondes’ Kate Jackson, the Pale Saints comparison (perhaps tracks that Meriel Barham sang) gets exciting. American bands rarely use effects this powerfully and reverberating, loudly-beautiful; compatibly, there’s post-punk thwack in the attack: bassist Billy Kunath and drummer Paul Goetz turn quickly from spongy to bold and harsh. And with tunes as tantalizing as “The Color Blue,” Falling Backwards,” and the Raveonettes-dirty “Sorry I’m Late,” the real color is green for “go.”
- Jack Rabid
credits
from The Color Blue,
released August 18, 2017
Recorded by Ian Lund at Metropolis #518 (Austin, TX)
Mixed and Mastered by Kevin Butler at Test Tube Audio (Austin, TX)
Assistant engineering and mixing by Brandon Tucker
Cover Art by Alexis Mabry, Back Cover Band Photo by Heather O'Connor, Layout Design by Jon Flood, Insert by Jess Ledbetter
Band Press Photo #1 by Wakeeña Real & Band Press Photo #2 by Jess Ledbetter
All songs written by Honeyrude - Copyright 2017 Honeyrude Music
Lyrics by Jess Ledbetter
Publishing 2017 Shifting Sounds
Honeyrude:
Paul Goetz - drums
Jess Ledbetter - guitar//vocals
Ian Lund - guitar
Billy Kunath - bass guitar
Hometown
Austin, TX
About
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Shifting Sounds was started in London in 2009 and now has offices in Austin Texas USA, and Melbourne, Australia. Set up
by musicians with industry knowledge with the aim of being a launching pad for talented musicians and bands, the goal of the label is to provide an ethical platform for bands to get off the ground....more
Magnet School are an American alternative rock band formed in Austin in 2005. With a unique style that stands alone in a sea of underground music. Shifting Sounds
supported by 14 fans who also own “The Color Blue”
"...really not sure how this album originally passed me by... While recalling the hazy days of Shoegazy Brit Pop, any attempt to dismiss this album as merely retro-dream pop or shoegaze is doomed to fail. Here is an album that exemplifies everything that pop(ular) music should be - 10 earworming tunes that will be reverberating around the space between your ears long after the album has finished..."
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