Following an EP and a steady stream of singles, Brooklyn dream pop slash surf rock act Colatura are preparing to release their debut full-length record next year. Comprising of Jennica Best (bass & vocals), Meredith Lampe (synth, guitar & vocals), Digo Best (guitar & vocals) and Alex Kirkpatrick (drums), the band make an enveloping sound made translucent by shimmering tones. One where lightness and weight are always competing, and nether wins out in the end.
Ahead of debut full-length The Met, set for release next spring, this month sees the release of brand new single, ‘We Run On Empty’. Charting the effects of a toxic relationship on one’s sense of self, the track explores how identity can be distorted or erased by outside forces. The result is something at once intimate and distant. Like thoughts examined at arms length in the dead of night, only the pale gleam of the moon as illumination.
But from within this muted and ethereal soundscape, something else bubbles. A rising intensity, a sense of fear or anxiety, the desire to escape as an act of self-perseveration. The feeling is most palpable in the track’s closing minute, the smooth tones punctured by a needling reverb. A glitch in the atmosphere that reveals the suffocating weight of its form.
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Check out the suitably dreamy video below, directed by the band themselves:
‘We Run On Empty’ is out now and available via the Colatura Bandcamp page. The Met is set for release sometime next year.
Photo by Justin Buschardt