Colorblind – Colorblind

Colourblind is a Mumbai based rock group comprising of Ram handling the vocals, keyboards, and drum programming and his unprejudiced pal Siddharth on all the electric, acoustic and bass. Phew, how much these two have done between themselves for the album? It’s certainly the best-packaged Indian release ever and it’s a big thing to be on Sony music. The inlay card is like any other international band and has some crazy and psychedelic images in it too. From the first sounds of "Blast" you can instantly make out they’re a synth-oriented rock band who love to use keyboard effects excessively. Ram has a rich voice too and the drumbeats are instantly recognizable to be that generated by a drum machine. But let me inform you that rock music without real instruments and people playing them sounds very queer and hollow as the natural tone to the sound is absent. Siddharth impresses with his nimble fingers playing a nice solo on the successor "Bang A Drum". But unfortunately unlike most of rock bands, keyboards are their only source of variation. "Colourblind", song which got them lots of valuable air-time on [V]’s ‘House of Noise’ tends more towards mainstream metal and is definitely the best track with tolerable solos. A song about rising above your skin colour and looking at a person from the inside for a change it too originates with keyboard before the heavy guitaring kicks in with a catchy riff. It has some well-thought lines like "U can make it to a higher place, but you can’t step over me". Gayatri, Ram’s good buddy who he’s thanked immensely on the album does the operatic singing on the slow and introspective "Legit Freak". SideB starts with another of the heavier compositions namely "Firebeath" with a nice bass solo of sorts. "Hu Woill I be" is a danceable and groovy song and moves onto "Fragile" which should be the album closer except for a few short crazy noises after it titled "@" finishing the album off. It’s not a bad purchase if you’re a rock lover but the abuse of the synthesizer really gets too hard to handle. I’d give it a 5/10 rating. UP THE IRONS!

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