The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Shop Windows
San Francisco’s jangle-pop outfit The Reds, Pinks & Purples recently dropped a great new EP, called Shop Windows.
The Reds, Pinks & Purples
The Reds, Pinks & Purples is the pop project of Glenn Donaldson, along with help from Katiana Mashikian, Thomas Rubenstein, and Andrew Hine.
Donaldson has collaborated with Loren Chasse and Steven R. Smith in Jewelled Antler, Thuja, The Skygreen Leopards, Art Museums, The Blithe Sons & Flying Canyon, along with other solo projects, such as The Birdtree and The Ivytree. He’s also an accomplished surrealist collage artist.
Shop Windows contains four-tracks. “Anxiety Art” starts things off, riding a gleaming melody rife with shimmering jangly guitars and a soft groove. Donaldson’s voice, dreamy and inflected with new wave coloration, provides resonant tones that glide over the harmonics. A sparkling guitar solo, backed by fluent synths, infuses the tune with glittery hues.
Absent a rhythm section, the harmonics pervade the tune with quixotic-laced energy, along with raw simplicity, seemingly remote yet imminent.
“Living On Sunday” opens on glittering guitars atop a bubbling rhythm vaguely reminiscent of The Cure, only with creamier flows of color and velvety radiant dynamics. New wave washes of color imbue the harmonics with scintillating surfaces and iridescent textures.
The title track changes things up a bit, opening on an austere melody full of rambling flavors riding an ascetic rhythm. Reverberating vocals backed by supple droning synths give the tune elusive nostalgic savors.
“Not Quite Sentimental” rides a metallic jangly guitar, eventually taking on expanding dynamics, but still remains elegantly delicate. Absent a rhythm section, the harmonics pervade the tune with quixotic-laced energy, along with raw simplicity, seemingly remote yet imminent. Donaldson’s voice on this track reveals tender yearning timbres.
The first two tracks, “Anxiety Art” and “Living On Sunday” mirror colors, flavors, and dynamics more attuned to standard jangle-pop, while the last two tracks are low-fi productions with gracious undertones.
Shop Windows features harmonic flows along numerous axes, from radiant to almost Spartan, yet is entirely yummy and contagious.
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