Chicago’s Muted Color specialize in captivating shoegaze-meets-dream-pop goodness, and do we have a goodie to premiere today!
The band is set to release their debut album, take i lovely you, on July 5 via Fever Ltd (Chain Gang of 1974, Heavenward, Mascara) and recently teased listeners with first single, “sudden change” last month, but new track, “acid rain” delves a bit deeper.
Taking on more of a 90s alternative vibe than previous material, “acid rain” soars with dreamy guitars and lush vocals with a backstory of the fear of death and all the in-betweens.
“I know that during writing, we talked a lot about trying to get a bit away from super wet shoegaze and do something drier a little bit like Smashing Pumpkins. We had been having more collaborative writing sessions, where we kind of all meet up and hangout, and try to make something organically, versus someone writing a demo on their own and then sending it to the group chat. So we all hung out, and in like 15 minutes, we wrote the demo for ‘acid rain.’ Tyler started just playing the opening chords and I mumbled through the melody, and that’s what is exemplified in the intro for the track. Lyrically, it’s about my fear of dying and how we won’t know when it happens. And how everything we do is to pass the time.”
Listen to “acid rain” below:
Available now here.
