Hey Colossus - Heaven Was WildHey Colossus' 15th album, Heaven Was Wild, is released via Wrong Speed Records, on limited purple vinyl. The idea was simple: a week in a studio together playing live, no click track, amps up full, don't stress the spill. BE A BAND. Shortly before recording, we did four sold out London dates in three days: North, South, East and West. We played the new album across the weekend, tweaking songs between gigs. Then it was into a room in Bruton, Somerset

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a string quartet

The band’s sound is characterized by a combination of German Krautrock motoric- beat rhythms

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vibe of the album has echoes of Miles Davis’ electronic era la ‘In A Silent Way’

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and the ambient tag feels increasingly limited given all that’s going on in their songs

When we put some feelings into a music expression – that’s liberation

it featured prominently in end-of-year round-ups and pipped Anna Calvi and Blood Orange to win Best 'Difficult' Second Album at the AIM Independent Music Awards 2014

“Draining The Bad Blood” channels the classic Bevis Frond mode of melodic guitar pop—cut from the same