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The Color Before the Sun

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Released
  
October 16, 2015

Length
  
47:08

Release date
  
16 October 2015

Label
  
300 Entertainment

Recorded
  
March 2015

Artist
  
Coheed and Cambria

Producer
  
Jay Joyce

Genre
  
Alternative rock

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Coheed and Cambria albums, Alternative rock albums

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The Color Before the Sun is the eighth studio album by progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria. Following the conceptual double album, The Afterman: Ascension and Descension, released in 2012 and 2013 respectively, The Color Before the Sun is the first non-conceptual album the band has released, making it the only Coheed and Cambria album to not be a part of The Amory Wars storyline. The band released a live acoustic version of "Atlas" in August 2014, and announced a release date of October 9 in July of the following year, before announcing a push back to October 16, 2015. The first single was "You Got Spirit, Kid", released in July 2015, with a music video for the song released in August. A second music video, for the song "Island", was released in October.

Contents

Island


Background and recording

In August, 2014, Coheed and Cambria singer/guitarist Claudio Sanchez released a self-shot acoustic rendition of a new song titled "Atlas" via the band's official YouTube channel.

Musical style

According to Darryl Sterdan of Toronto Sun, "The Color Before the Sun" abandons the band's previous Rush-influenced progressive rock sound, in favor of a "more grounded and streamlined" alternative rock sound. Richard Whittaker at The Austin Chronicle characterized the album as "pop rock rather than space prog."

Release

The album was released in both digital and physical formats on October 16, 2015. The album name and release date were announced on July 7, 2015 via a social media and the release of a new single, "You Got Spirit, Kid", available to stream. A second single, "Here to Mars" was released on September 3, 2015. On August 6, 2015 a limited edition, deluxe box set was announced. This deluxe box set includes two CDs—the album and a disc of demo tracks—two hardcover books—one featuring album lyrics and artwork and another featuring a "behind-the-scenes look" of the album's creative process—an in-studio DVD, and a clear 7-inch record of unreleased demo tracks. Purchasers also received an instant download of “You Got Spirit, Kid,” a membership card, a custom house key, a lapel pin, a certificate of authenticity; as well as exclusive, members-only access to new music, videos, concert tickets, merchandise and commentary from the band. The week of the release, the band streamed the entire album on the Pandora radio site.

Reception

At Metacritic, The Color Before the Sun generated a score of 70/100 from 9 reviews, indicating "Generally favorable reviews".

Tom Jurek at AllMusic stated "The Color Before the Sun is not the band's best record, but it is utterly inspired and almost nakedly sincere. It will likely play well to fans, but even more importantly, perhaps attract new ones." Sean Barry of Consequence of Sound opined "this sort of autobiographical songwriting can’t be found in the band’s foundation." Despite that, Barry stated that "this new freedom and genuine self-acceptance" should be encouraged by the band and expanded upon in future material. Jordan Blum from PopMatters concluded that it's a good album in its own right, and that fans will find things to enjoy about the album, adding "It may sound silly to fault an album for not doing what it was never meant to do, but the lack of an epic scope and a more seamless sequence ... surely makes The Color Before the Sun feel less significant and magnificent than many of its predecessors."

The album was included at number 29 on Rock Sound's top 50 releases of 2015 list.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Claudio Sanchez; all segues written and arranged by Sanchez. All songs arranged by Coheed and Cambria.

Personnel

===Coheed and Cambria===

  • Claudio Sanchez – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Travis Stever – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Josh Eppard – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Zach Cooper – bass, backing vocals
  • Additional Instrumentation

  • Roy Agee – horns
  • Mike Haynes – horns
  • Jennifer Kummer – horns
  • Avery Bright – strings
  • Melodie Morris – strings
  • Eleonore Denig – strings
  • Jay Joyce – Rhodes piano
  • Chondra Marie Sanchez – additional background vocals
  • The Prize Fighter Inferno – synth world
  • Artwork

  • Nick Steinhardt – cover art
  • Songs

    1Island5:02
    2Eraser3:53
    3Colors4:42

    References

    The Color Before the Sun Wikipedia