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Colour Revolt, History, Mouse Fire

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Critic's Pick

The Grifters were one of the most underrated bands of the late-’90s alt-rock underground. Their swampy, post-blues drama nailed the sound of the New South’s identity crisis with equal measures indie-rock sloppiness and poetic electrical surges. The boys in Colour Revolt – all hail from Oxford, Miss., a town philosophically adjacent to the Grifters’ Memphis – don’t sound like the Grifters, but they do stoke similar fires by reminding us that Southern rock need not be delivered by bearded alcoholics in wife-beater T-shirts. Humid and evocative, the sound of Colour Revolt is steeped in both the intellectual pretense and the antebellum spookiness of their hometown. By merging sludgy blues passages with complex, laconic arrangements that split the difference between Radiohead and Modest Mouse, Colour Revolt are solid proof that the cultural geography of America has yet to be completely homogenized.(Staff)