King Colobus’s newly released album ‘Torn Between Age & Perseverance’ takes you through cinematic atmospheres, gritty textures and solid hooks, creating an earthy blend of different genres such as alternative, punk and folk. The result is an album full of bangers, bold choices and plenty of character!
7 Billion Bugs
One of the more hypnotic and captivating tracks on the album, ‘7 Billion Bugs’ has an addictive hook and great bass action, giving it a meaty, raw, dark sound. The track is invigorating, reflective and captures earthy textures that bind all the elements together well.
Don’t Trust Anyone
This song’s running hook builds up a more anxious tension, like a warning, before it pulls an unexpected move by swivelling from a mysterious mood into an amused one with the change in chords. Normally, it wouldn’t work, but it absolutely does here!
Shadow
This track captures a rustic flavour and features an interplay of a playful composition with an action-packed pulsation.
The Soul That Lives Here
Taking on a more dissonant, ominous tone, with a smoky atmosphere, the arrangement combines these undercurrents with the rich, deep set of lead vocals, while the secondary vocals act like another instrument together, like fire reaching into the skies
World On Fire
A genre-bending song with a grungy landscape that the artist takes you through, this track is foundationally built by deliciously peppy instrumentation and dark humour.
Human Nature
This song is set up by dialogue, and like ‘Don’t Trust Anyone’, this track builds a dark tension using a hook, but with a more charred soundscape. The band doesn’t shy from experimenting with that tension build, building on the interlude and almost suspending time!
Empire
Adopting a Sweeter tone in comparison, tender, deeper atmospheric layering with more of a brighter approach, but maintains some of that guitar crackle, and the arrangement deftly works the other instruments into the track.
Hole
The most alternative sounding track on the list is ‘Hole’, which stands tall in its sharp soundscape and brooding ambiance.
Wreckless
Another upbeat track that exposes the artists’ talent with composition and arrangement, this one’s a great track to end the album with a grand finish.
With each track having its own distinct personality, it’s safe to say that King Colobus has great command over musical structuring, easily merging one distinct mood with another, and keeping it engaging throughout.