My Review: Coloured Tears - Everything reminds me of you

 Coloured Tears - Everything reminds me of you  

What is attraction? Where does it lead us? What makes us lose, rightly so, of useless things? Questions that sow wisdom are never enemies. They only need caresses and closeness.

Listen to the album by André Grafert, the German artist who chose the name Coloured Tears for his intriguing project: six waves full of melodies and lightness between melancholy and tenderness. Thirty-eight years after the beginning of his career, here comes his stylistic and qualitative culmination with an album that, spanning musical genres with which he has grown, has managed to put his signature against a gathering of irresistible songs. Sensuality runs through every second (a Bryan Ferry discussing suffering and remedies with David Sylvian), along with the feeling that he can make his voice an emotional portal with simplicity, without frills. Also endowed with immense capabilities is the music, a blend of Synthpop polite not to disturb and not to seek applause, but rather attention and respect. 

The guitars, however, appear and are faithful butlers of the tiny work that ultimately serves to appreciate the whole. Perhaps there is a darkwave soul somewhere, and if there is, in its mystery perhaps it is hidden so as not to take too much credit, because everything slips away perfectly within a feeling that these are songs with a pop soul put on the sill, to be displayed with harmony and sensitivity. To top it all off: a record like this is a gift to keep in bed, you have to give it attention and sleep with it, in perfect solitude...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

12 Febbraio 2023

https://colouredtears.bandcamp.com/album/everything-reminds-me-of-you