The Color Morale

For the Rockford, IL quintet, treading new territory has uncovered their most poetic, potent, and powerful body of work to date in their fifth studio album, <a href="spotify:album:7JwcIRPogSjQNm4IfbBtQx" data-name="Desolate Divine">Desolate Divine</a>, which captures the band’s palpable aggression through expansive production, yielding to a bigger sonic backdrop, while preserving the sense of emotional vulnerability they’re known for. Following the success of early albums,<a href="spotify:album:06U6atX8QpkGZqFLCd2P1e" data-name="We All Have Demons">We All Have Demons</a>, <a href="spotify:album:2xae14LTx83yFmgTCiAkJv" data-name="My Devil In Your Eyes">My Devil In Your Eyes</a>, and <a href="spotify:album:051fwEmw00ZimoU3Hjzd33" data-name="Know Hope">Know Hope</a>, the group received a 2014 Alternative Press Music Awards nomination in the category of “Best Breakthrough Band.” Shortly after, <a href="spotify:album:2rGbn1jd8uBYUTCY9yeM6M" data-name="Hold On Pain Ends">Hold On Pain Ends</a> debuted at #28 on the Billboard Top 200 upon release—the group’s highest chart position yet. The recording process for <a href="spotify:album:7JwcIRPogSjQNm4IfbBtQx" data-name="Desolate Divine">Desolate Divine</a> marks a first for the musicians as they enlisted multiple producers and songwriters to perfect the dynamic sound they wanted to achieve—Dan Korneff [ <a href="spotify:artist:4iJLPqClelZOBCBifm8Fzv" data-name="Pierce The Veil">Pierce The Veil</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0NbQe5CNgh4YApOCDuHSjb" data-name="The Devil Wears Prada">The Devil Wears Prada</a> ], Erik Ron [<a href="spotify:artist:20JZFwl6HVl6yg8a4H3ZqK" data-name="Panic! At The Disco">Panic! At The Disco</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1NUOfvAhA9AvsF1ISMkgHX" data-name="Saosin">Saosin</a>], Scott Stevens [ <a href="spotify:artist:70BYFdaZbEKbeauJ670ysI" data-name="Shinedown">Shinedown</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6om12Ev5ppgoMy3OYSoech" data-name="Halestorm">Halestorm</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:39VNwvlQTqE9SvgPjjnMpc" data-name="Nothing More">Nothing More</a>], Arnold Lanni [ <a href="spotify:artist:2p4FqHnazRucYQHyDCdBrJ" data-name="Simple Plan">Simple Plan</a>], and Matt Wentworth. Whether you’re a first-time listener or a long-time diehard, you’ve likely never heard <a href="spotify:artist:3QHJftSfNb6KIerLVsx7zn" data-name="The Color Morale">The Color Morale</a> like this before, as the band remains unflinchingly real and unashamedly ambitious in Desolate Divine, released in August 2016.