CD Review: Reflections – "The Color Clear" (eOne Music / Good Fight)
If you were to cast off Reflections and their latest
album The Color Clear as just another
like-sounding, carbon copy metal band, you’d be making a mistake. While at
first glance it might be easy to do just that, a few minutes with The Color Clear could change your mind.
First and foremost, this is a pretty damn emotional record. Frontman Jake Wolfe
candidly slits his wrists and bleeds onto wax time and time again with tortured
lines like ‘I know I’m a failure in your fucking eyes / But it doesn’t matter
to me cause your fucking blind / My entire life has been a waste of time /
Falling for the same tricks in a different disguise’ and ‘I have no heart / I
have no fucking heart / Everything I touch always falls apart / I’m done being
treated like the dirt underneath your feet,’ found on “Shadow Self,” arguably
the album’s best track and easily one of the most badass offerings you’ll hear
anytime soon (that opening riff is madness, very Pantera-like). Elsewhere on The Color Clear, Wolfe spits ‘If I could
die tonight / I wouldn’t think twice / I would take the step / Right over the
edge’ (“Amulet”). Though its relatively easy to get lost in the waves of The Color Clear, there’s ample
opportunities here to get your head above the water as it were (“Sadist” is
menacing as shit, the post-hardcore of “Amulet” is a welcome change of pace,”
“Actias Luna” is a rather expansive take on the bands core sound, complete with
acoustic guitars). There’s no doubt The
Color Clear is a well-written album, one metal fans should welcome with
open arms.
Grade: C+
Go Download: “Shadow Self”
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