‘The Color Red’ are NuMetal, Clean grunge, second generation Nirvana, with a rawk bellow that rolls over songs that wouldn’t be out of place on the new Nickelback album. Any one of the tracks on their second album ‘Clear’ could be a hit (particularly in the U.S.) and any could probably get heavy rotation on MTV2.
‘The Color Red’ have played with the likes of No Doubt, Lit, Papa Roach, The Offspring and the Deftones, and this helps place them a little – all the choruses call for a little light head banging, and the verses drape vocals around guitar twangs that sound like ‘Teen Spirit’ cleaned up a bit.
To go along with the rockers, tracks such as ‘Season’ with it’s Verve-like guitar squiggles and strings, and ‘Do You’ give intimations of a sweeter side to the band – and the final track, the beautiful ‘Miracles’ manage to equal Oasis in combining heavy handedness with sensitivity in a ballad.
All in all then, The Color Red are not that different from, but easily as good as, any top 40 grunge acts right now.