The Blue Indian: Secret Colours

Blazing a kaleidoscopic trail of psychedelic reverb and electronic distortion, the Chicago-based Secret Colours’ self-titled album is, at its essence, a retro revitalization, blending 60s influences with modern layering-effects for a multihued, hallucinogenic journey of sound. Laced with various timbres and tone-colors, the album’s sound-strata seem to seep through your speakers, surround you like Kodachromatic currents, wash over you in pied waves. They carry you off. And in such a way that—well, the word “trip” seems highly appropriate. (MORE)