Colourbox • Colourbox

By Rich Teer | June 12th, 2011

4AD CAD508
33-RPM LP

I have my friend, Stuart, to thank for introducing me to Colourbox, back in the mid-1980s. He was very much into the Indie music scene at that time, and would often play me his latest 12” singles (songs that rarely, if ever, made it into the top 40) and albums. One such record was Colourbox’s eponymously-titled debut LP (and, as it turned out, their only full-length album). I loved it and quickly added it to my collection.

The music is eclectic, spanning a number of genres. For example, the album’s opening track is Sleepwalker, an elegiac piano solo that segues into the much faster and rocky sample fest that is Just Give ’Em Whiskey. The album also features a couple of covers, including Say You, and You Keep Me Hanging On.

The sound quality is, while in keeping with the genre and age, very good. I still love this record nearly 30 years after I first bought it. Get a copy today—but try to get hold of one of the first 10,000 copies, which included a free bonus EP (the first side of the bonus EP was included on the CD version of this album, but not the second).