Colored Music - Colored MusicAn incredible mix of cosmic new wave, unconventional disco, avant garde synth pop, and hybrid electronic funk, Colored Music is enchantingly unique, a sort of experimental and magnetizing take on David Bowies Berlin Trilogy with a psychedelic Haruomi Hosono touch. From the groovy post punk glam title track to the proto house dance floor killer "Heartbeat", Ichiko Hashimoto and Atsuo Fujimoto hit all the right (and sometimes not exactly right but truly

That‰۪s Poison Season in essence: familiar yet mysterious

unconditional love

the lush strings and dominant wah-wah guitar of 1984seem like a nod to Isaac Hayes

but the fact that Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks have thrived

and some scrappy duo-era home recordings still linger on the internet

Hooker had just recently turned to evangelical Christianity when he assembled a collection of local Connecticut musicians to commit 10 tracks of psychedelic folk to wax

which turns every riff and rhythm into points on a map and takes the scenic route from one to the next

filmic grandeur

it was never issued on vinyl

In April 2017

furthering the duo‰۪s rep as purveyors of the Verlaine/Lloyd legacy

and if you‰۪re lucky it‰۪s Harold McNair or Tubby