Leave it to the listener.
Snapir and RORO team up on the highly experimental album Colors Left, a seven-song EP that exceeds just over a half hour. The album features gnarly bass and provocative leads, with each track differing vastly from its predecessor. This contrast creates an abstract listening experience grounded in deep drum grooves that weave the individual tracks into a blanket of abstractionism that leaves much up to interpretation.
The absence of lyrics and, in some cases, more fundamental parts of a song, like on the track “What After,” reinforce the idea this is not a sing-along album meant to evoke a certain feeling in its entirety. Instead, the album cultivates curiosity and asks the listener to look introspectively for meaning unique to them at that moment. With sharp arrangements, glitchy sound design, and popping ear candy that tickles the brain in all the right ways, unfortunately, most tracks have a ton of untapped potential. During the album’s first half, songs draw on a bit too long with insufficient change to justify a 5- or 6-minute track that keeps the listener engaged.
But on the flip side, the album’s final two tracks carry Colors Left, “Fractures,” and the title track, “Colors Left.” “Fractures” uses the push and pull of an audio sample that sounds like a distorted wind gust to build the track up and break it down over its almost five-minute run time. This versatile sound creates a dark and eerie feeling underneath the bass notes, chord progressions and arpeggios snapir and RORO use as color. “Colors Left” is the uplifting conclusion to a rather gloomy album full of deep cuts from the Finnish electronic producers. Colors Left will be available in its entirety on January 17th, 2025.
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