ARTIST: The Color Bars
TITLE: Kairos At Infinity
LABEL: CD Baby
GENRE: Rock
TIME: 46:48 min
SIZE:  63,3 MB
RIP DATE: Nov-12-2007
RELEASE DATE: Oct-09-2007
WEBSITE: n/a

Track List:

01. Id Incinerator                             04:28
02. Pretty Krinkled                            03:37
03. Ja Mata Shibuya                            02:44
04. Nepenthe Powdered Tart                     03:37
05. Marve Musov Goes To Pieces                 04:31
06. Regluing You                               02:42
07. Father Duffy's Statue                      03:41
08. In Our Backyard                            03:09
09. The Gedanken Train                         03:58
10. Austin Town                                04:22
11. Paralysis A La Mode                        05:00
12. Every Living Thing                         04:59

Release Notes:

From Seattle Power Pop Blog on Thursday, September
13, 2007

The Color Bars are genius

Alright... I realize the title of this blog post is
a bit hyperbolic. But, I've been sitting on The
Color Bars' new release Kairos At Infinity for
nearly a week now, trying to figure out how to
review it, and I'm just stumped. It's really good.
But, it's so crazy that even taking it all in is a
challenge.

Don't get me wrong. It's super easy to enjoy each of
these songs as they whiz, whirl, and swirl past me
at each listen. They're all catchy and fun. It's
just that anytime I've tried to get a 10,000 foot
view of it for a review, I have struggled.

The one sentence that I have used a few times to
describe the record to people is: This is what it
might sound like if Matthew Sweet and The Beach Boys
got high and went nuts in a Hello Kitty store.

So, let me try to slog through something more
detailed and coherent to say here...

.... okay, I just sat silently without typing for
five minutes. Obviously, I'm having a hard time
being coherent.

Let me try again. I'll start with the lyrics, which
are sublimely brilliant. They're evocative and
surprising and psychedelic, while giving an acute
perspective on whatever subject they're addressing
in a given song. But, perhaps even more than the
lyrics, what jumps out at me is how they're
delivered. In truth, I have no idea what they're
singing about 90 percent of the time. But, they are
delivered with such a longing that they tug at my
heart even when they're singing in Japanese (the
very Matthew Sweet-esque "Ja Mata Shibuya") or about
Dairy Queen (the falsetto disco pop of "Nepenthe
Powered Tart").

With Kairos At Infinity The Colors Bars give us a
post-modern, helium-driven ride through both pop
history and pop future. Sometimes loping, sometimes
danceable, sometimes driving and always poppy, the
record is simultaneously confounding and
irresistible. I can see everyone from the most jaded
hipster to the most impressionable teenager to the
most sophisticated listener enjoying this record.

Either that, or it will be completely missed by all
parties, and if that happens it will be a shame,
because they really do have their creative genius
flowing on this record.


