{"id":60092,"date":"2018-05-17T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=60092"},"modified":"2018-05-16T21:04:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T20:04:29","slug":"review-colour-me-wednesday-counting-pennies-in-the-afterlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-colour-me-wednesday-counting-pennies-in-the-afterlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Colour Me Wednesday \u2013 Counting Pennies in the Afterlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The DIY indie-punk scene is a crowded place at the best of times, but over the last decade, London\u2019s Colour Me Wednesday<\/strong> have made a mark thanks to their whip-smart songwriting and progressive and inclusive politics.<\/p>\n

\u2018Counting Pennies in the Afterlife\u2019<\/em>, the group\u2019s second full-length, is a deft combination of these, marrying political ideals with insidiously catchy power-pop songs that stretch the grey matter while frequently hitting a near-perfect beat.<\/p>\n

And it works brilliantly well too; there\u2019s no pandering or sloganeering here, just smartly observed ruminations that emphasise the positive changes we can make. \u201cI wanna feel alive again,\u201d<\/em> sings Jen Doveton on opener \u2018Sunriser\u2019<\/em>, returning to the idea midway through the album on \u2018Exposure\u2019<\/em>, where she says that you only \u201cget one life and you can do more than just survive.\u201d<\/em> The sincerity that such lines are delivered with might be overly saccharine in lesser hands, but here it\u2019ll make your heart swell.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the personal and political get mixed perfectly; \u2018Entrepreneur\u2019<\/em>, with its light-hearted chorus of “I\u2019m not unemployed, I\u2019m an entrepreneur looking for investors”<\/em> might seem throwaway but it could be dissected in a number of ways. That it remains a killer pop song just adds to the charm.<\/p>\n