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It’s difficult to put The Color Forty Nine in a simple box. Their music is an elegant mystery, spacious and lush, haunting and jubilant. It’s a balance of divergent themes and soundscapes, subtly unmoored to predictability. The lines between fiction and confession are blurred as the stories unfold hypnotic. The songs explore the pace and passage of hours, the struggles and joys in the process, the underbelly of intimacy, touch, the flood and rush of life, all delivered with a clam patience that conveys landscape and time. The music is a desert’s reflection on the border town complexities of San Diego and Tijuana, the unwanted fences, the blending of culture, the sprawling skies.
The music is cinematic, it’s an open road drive to the proverbial west. With violins etching the movement of clouds, pianos spelling out the rain, the haunt of synthesizers adding a unique element to gothic Americana ballads. There’s a hint of gypsy and barrio, roots reaching outward into new terrain. It’s the music of the Mojave sunset.
“There’s a beautiful isolation at the core of The Color Forty Nine music…spare and haunting sounds that evoke visions of long expanses of land or skies filled with cotton-y clouds.” - PASTE MAGAZINE
“This isn’t something you hear every day, it’s dark and brooding, yet an uplifting and jubilant classic at the same time.” NO DEPRESSION
This release at the 2018 half-mark contains some of the best indie music to be heard thus far in the year. - MUSIC EXISTENCE
The music is cinematic, it’s an open road drive to the proverbial west. With violins etching the movement of clouds, pianos spelling out the rain, the haunt of synthesizers adding a unique element to gothic Americana ballads. There’s a hint of gypsy and barrio, roots reaching outward into new terrain. It’s the music of the Mojave sunset.
“There’s a beautiful isolation at the core of The Color Forty Nine music…spare and haunting sounds that evoke visions of long expanses of land or skies filled with cotton-y clouds.” - PASTE MAGAZINE
“This isn’t something you hear every day, it’s dark and brooding, yet an uplifting and jubilant classic at the same time.” NO DEPRESSION
This release at the 2018 half-mark contains some of the best indie music to be heard thus far in the year. - MUSIC EXISTENCE
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