After eight long years, Living Colour is back with new music in the release of “Come On,” the first single from a full-length album due out September 8. The forthcoming record Shade marks the band’s sixth album, following 2009’s The Chair in the Doorway. Frontman Corey Glover says the band has been busy perfecting this new work of art for quite a while, and that the result is “a long look at the blues and its incarnations, musically as well as emotionally.”
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Glover continues, in an interview with Billboard, “It’s Living Colour’s blues. To do a song like ‘Who’s That’ up against something like ‘Invisible,’ it’s the blues; One is more distinctly the blues than the other, but it’s all the blues — our version of Chicago blues, our version of Delta blues. The blues evolved in various ways for various people. For some people the blues turned into hard rock and heavy metal, for some people the blues turned into hip-hop, for some people the blues turned into R&B and soul music. But it all comes from the same place.” Read the full interview here.
Living Colour’s music bends back and forth between heavy metal, funk, jazz, hip-hop, country, and alternative rock, inviting a variety of listeners to enjoy their music since 1984. The first sounds of Shade can be heard below, via Billboard:
“It’s the times more than anything else; Where are you mentally at that particular point?” Glover explains about “Come On.” “Even when we started this record there were a lot of things going on in the world, period, that needed to be talked about, and it just sort of ratcheted up as we progressed. That made us have to really look at this stuff and go back and make sure it really did emphasize certain things, make sure it was working.”
In addition to the originals, the new Blues-inspired album also includes covers of Robert Johnson‘s “Preachin’ Blues,” The Notorious B.I.G.‘s “Who Shot Ya,” and Marvin Gaye‘s “Inner City Blues.” Tour dates to support Shade are forthcoming.