These guys are a relatively new discovery for me, but they're not half bad. Their album, Listener, was released late 2012, and they're currently touring the US of A.
The Technicolors are your standard indie rock band from Phoenix, Arizona, with big/floppy hair, and one even has a 'tasche. They wear black skinny jeans, denim shirts and novelty t-shirts. So far, so standard. In an era so flooded with indie rock bands, like Foals or The Black Keys or The Maccabees, it's difficult to make yourself stand out from the crowd. The Technicolors manage it by harking back to a slightly vintage rock sound, but adding a modern twist on it with the scratchy vocals of frontman Brennan Smiley. The guitar riffs do sound a lot like Led Zeppelin's, just because they are, undoubtedly, the masters of catchy guitar riffs, but the make up of the songs does manage to distinguish them from the crowd, although their influences are very obvious.
Their debut album, released in November 2012, is called Listener. Very aptly named, because many of the toe-tapping songs (excuse me for using that word, I feel middle aged already) have an incredible guitar riff, coupled with very meaningful lyrics. Take
Sweet Time, for example: "I'm out here waiting to breath... So go and take your sweet time".
I very, very much recommend them; trust me, however generic they may seem at first listen, they get better and better with every hit of that replay button.
Recommended tracks:
Again
Listener
Fake A Smile
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