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“Unsuspecting yet exquisitely crafted electronics make Colorlist's album mood music that you can't ignore. It's the perfect genre-defying rainy day album that is as cohesive as it is undefinable”

            - Now Like Photographs    full review

“The record has quietly pulled me in, revealing new

details with every listen.”

            - Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader  2/08

“The songs progress in a vertical fashion; Gorczynski’s saxophone embellishments and harmonium swells, Rumback’s spry, shifting rhythms, and a barrage of other electronic hums and sputters give increasing texture to the otherwise monochromatic composition. The song eventually becomes a throbbing orb of harmonic tones hovering around light drum patterns and creaking electronics..”

“...pure aural ecstasy”

          - Michael Ardaiolo, Audiversity  full review

“chicago duo that synthesizes ambient, manipulated sounds with avant jazz... this group's relaxed, sublime sound.”

          - Mike Corsa, WNUR Airplay Show  full review

“Colorlist's debut album, though in many ways audibly the product of a sonic history involving groups like Tortoise and the Sea and Cake and its many affiliates (not a total surprise that there's a guest from Isotope 217 on here), makes for one of the finer efforts in that vein in a long while, thanks to the core band's ear for beautiful, structured arrangements and moody atmospherics.  The air of careful, beautiful delicacy that informs the entire album has some astonishing high points...”

        - AllMusic.com  3/08

    “This one whirls very pleasantly into your room. A true surprise. We

are talking here of a quartet from Chicago, the nucleus of this group is made up by Charles Rumback (drums, marimba, guitars) and Charles Gorzcynski (saxophones, harmonium, synth) accompanied by Brian Bullard and Matthew Gagnon, and several other guests playing cellos, guitars, bass clarinet, etc.  For me, with a background in a Canterbury music, this music clearly relates to the world of Hugh Hopper, Robert Wyatt, Terry Riley, etc.  In a postrock way they explore in their sonic excursions a music that shows many faces: ambient , jazz, rock.  This is very intuitive and meditative music.  Modest but very self-consciouss and effective. The pieces have well-balanced arrangements and they are beautifully colored. Electronics and the other instruments are interwoven organically. This album grows after each listening. Very well done.”

        - Vital Weekly  5/08