While poking around the crevasses, corners and edges of the “Second Wave of New Wave” I found the music of The Reds, Pinks & Purples, one of many projects for San Fransisco musician Glenn Donaldson.
The prolific Donaldson performs and collaborates in a range of different bands. The Reds, Pinks & Purples is a solo project that sounds as if he’s taken snippets from his personal journal (during a generally sad and depressing period) and built them into condensed pop songs using a specific pallet of jangly New Wave layers and Shoegaze drone. While these songs don’t stray very far in their arrangements, tempo, or tone – such that it could be hard to argue with a criticism of sounding all a bit samey – I find it a wonderful pairing for that bittersweet vibe.
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