Gang Colours - In Your Gut Like A Knife

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2...according to our Dave on Thu 02 Jun, 2011.

Gang Colours make a sort of minimalist ,shoe-gaze type sound that isn't for me. You know, its one of them....sort of dance music with a really annoying off beat that every time I hear it I want to stab myself in the face with a sharpened onion. At least after doing so I could get someone to eat the evidence . It's dance music for people who don't like dancing but love standing about with records that they will never open. With a name like Gang Colours I fully expected to be thrust into a world where pimps and whoes trawl the pavements looking for there next fix or job, gold toothed playahs cruise about in open top cars like dark eyed wolves on the prowl and screams and gunshots can heard emanating from the Projects...unfortunately I was ushered into a place where people say stuff like "James Blake?? He's a genius!!!" and nerdy music types fall over themselves to grasp the last copy of WIRE from the coffee table that also provides sanctuary for numerous dance/two step/dubstep twats that you might care to mention. It's not my thing but it is well put together and produced rather finely..... wiggers everywhere will love it.......

Following in the footsteps of James Blake, Gang Colours tip-toes from the shadows of the Worldwide underground with his unique brand of cinematic post- dubstep electronica.

It’s the emotive, dreamy quality of Gang Colours’ debut EP, ‘In Your Gut Like A Knife’, that really grips the listener to the core; indeed, all the way to the gut. Floating in ambiguity, not leaning towards one genre nor another, its organic simplicity leads to a unique groove: one that maybe hasn’t been paved just yet.

As a portal into a world of daydreams, tumbling into shadows and embracing luminescence simultaneously, Gang Colours turns drum patterns into magic. Breeding surreal headphone-friendly landscapes, he fills them with unexpected sounds that would otherwise seem out of place. At times his sound effects strike a peculiar balance between otherworldly and familiarity. At other points they conjure a sense of longing. Think Mount Kimbie with a playful sense of humour, Burial on a soft, sunny dancefloor, Gold Panda with an R&B lean.