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The Color Spectrum
11-track, standard-edition cover.
Studio album by
The Dear Hunter
ReleasedJune 14, 2011
Recorded2010–2011
GenreBlack: industrial rock, alternative rock
Red: grunge
Orange: blues rock, hard rock
Yellow: psychedelic rock, pop rock
Green: folk, country
Blue: soft rock, experimental rock
Indigo: electronic rock
Violet: baroque pop, alternative rock
White: alternative rock, progressive rock
Length41:45 (standard)
144:21 (complete EP set)
LabelTriple Crown Records
ProducerCasey Crescenzo
The Dear Hunter chronology
The Branches EP
(2010) 		The Color Spectrum
(2011) 		Migrant
(2013)
Complete Edition cover
Cover for the "complete edition", featuring the full project.
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic81/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk89%[2]
AllMusic[3]
Alternative Press
PopMatters[4]

The Color Spectrum is the name of both the fourth studio album by American progressive rock band The Dear Hunter, and a series of nine EPs by the band of which each reflects an individual color of the visible color spectrum (namely Black, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, White).[5] This project was envisioned by frontman Casey Crescenzo as a way to interpret the colors of the spectrum via music. It is their first album that is not part of a common storyline with the rest of their work.

The Color Spectrum was released on June 14, 2011, in two different versions: the "standard" edition, featuring selected songs from the project, and the "Complete Collection" edition, featuring all nine EPs.

Background and recording

Brendan Brown (formerly in The Receiving End of Sirens with Casey) played bass guitar on the Orange EP. Jessy Ribordy (Falling Up) played mandolin on the Green EP. Naive Thieves helped with songs on the Yellow and Blue EPs. Andy Hull (Manchester Orchestra) provided vocals on tracks 1–3 on the Red EP. Tanner Merritt (O'Brother) sang on "A Curse Of Cynicism". Mike Watts co produced the White and Violet EPs

On April 7, 2011, Crescenzo announced via Twitter that The Color Spectrum was finished.[6]

Promotion and release

On April 14, 2011, the band released a free MP3 download of "Deny It All" from the Red EP on their website. On April 26, Alternative Press debuted a lyric video for "This Body" from the Black EP, created by Crescenzo.[7]

Concept

The Color Spectrum's influence is the subjectivity of perception and to a lesser extent the freedom it affords its viewer. Crescenzo remarks:

Anything we think of, we can do. Humanity's idea of colors is too broad. This needs to be more personal, because ideas of colors vary from person to person. Even for people who have synesthesia, the specific images or sounds they hear attached to colors vary from person to person. And that just reinforces the point of doing the project, to produce our interpretation of color, the way we feel about colors or are inspired by the colors – how we hear them or see them.[8]

Track listings

Standard release track listing

All tracks are written by Casey Crescenzo

No.TitleLength
1."Filth and Squalor (Black)"4:01
2."Deny It All (Red)"3:34
3."But There's Wolves? (Orange)"4:04
4."She's Always Singing (Yellow)"2:40
5."Things That Hide Away (Green)"3:24
6."The Canopy (Green)"3:52
7."Trapdoor (Blue)"3:54
8."What Time Taught Us (Indigo)"4:07
9."Lillian (Violet)"4:07
10."Home (White)"3:55
11."Fall and Flee (White)"4:07

Complete collection track listing

Black EP
No.TitleLength
1."Never Forgive, Never Forget"4:41
2."Filth and Squalor"4:01
3."Take More Than You Need"4:30
4."This Body"4:47
Red EP
No.TitleLength
1."I Couldn't Do It Alone"3:29
2."A Curse of Cynicism"3:11
3."Deny It All"3:34
4."We've Got a Score to Settle"3:45
Orange EP
No.TitleLength
1."Echo"4:06
2."Stuck On a Wire, Out On a Fence"3:08
3."A Sea of Solid Earth"4:41
4."But There's Wolves?"4:06
Yellow EP
No.TitleLength
1."She's Always Singing"2:40
2."The Dead Don't Starve"4:57
3."A Sua Voz"3:20
4."Misplaced Devotion"3:46
Green EP
No.TitleLength
1."Things That Hide Away"3:24
2."The Canopy"3:52
3."Crow and Cackle"5:43
4."The Inheritance"3:26
Blue EP
No.TitleLength
1."Tripping in Triplets"3:52
2."Trapdoor"3:54
3."What You Said"5:04
4."The Collapse of the Great Tide Cliffs"5:33
Indigo EP
No.TitleLength
1."What Time Taught Us"4:07
2."Mandala"4:55
3."Progress"3:35
4."Therma"2:43
Violet EP
No.TitleLength
1."Mr. Malum"3:57
2."Lillian"4:07
3."Too Late"4:03
4."Look Away"3:41
White EP
No.TitleLength
1."Home"3:55
2."Fall and Flee"4:05
3."No God"3:49
4."Lost But Not All Gone"3:58

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References

  1. ^ "The Color Spectrum by The Dear Hunter Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  2. ^ "chorus.fm". chorus.fm. 8 October 2023.
  3. ^ The Color Spectrum at AllMusic
  4. ^ "The Dear Hunter: The Color Spectrum | PopMatters". Archived from the original on 2015-08-07. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
  5. ^ "Triple Crown Records – The Color Spectrum : The Complete Collection – Vinyl – Official Merch – Powered by MerchDirect". Merchdirect.com. 2011-06-14. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  6. ^ Casey Crescenzo [@CaseyCrescenzo] (April 7, 2011). "9 months, 36 songs, and 1 project later" (Tweet). Retrieved 15 December 2012 – via Twitter.
  7. ^ ""A Score To Settle" Live". YouTube. 2011-06-07. Archived from the original on August 1, 2013. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  8. ^ Block, Summer (2012-02-03). "The Dear Hunter: Reinventing the Color Wheel". alarm-magazine.com. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
  9. ^ "The Color Spectrum The Complete Collection: The Dear Hunter: Amazon.co.uk: MP3 Downloads". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-07-26.

External links

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Spectrum