I heard a story somewhere that New Colony Six and Paul Revere & The Raiders shared a duplex in LA without knowing it. Both bands, New Colony Six from Chicago and the Raiders from Boise, were in LA trying to "make it" and spent at least a few weeks living in the duplex together without realizing it. One day when one band was leaving for a show and the other was coming back from a show they ran into each other and realized they were both wearing colonial costumes and things got super weird. The details get a bit hazy here but the singer of NCS claims they ended up changing their outfits once The Raiders started to get huge so t wouldn't seem like they were aping The Raiders' image. Personally, I think New Colony Six looks way better in their goofy costumes, especially in the video of them on Kiddie A Go Go.
They sound is moody and harmony-thick garage. There's a range of energy, but the general atmosphere is soulful and reverb-laden. "At The Rivers Edge" was comped on the nuggets box set, and while it's a great song (who doesn't love upbeat harmonica-laden tracks about suicide) it's not really indicative of the rest of the album. Most of the tracks are mid-tempo lovey-dovey songs which bring that sort of melancholy teeny emotional pulp that I love so much. What's cool is that they bring the heat with tons of slightly weird section changes. Plus, they end it with a "live" track with fake crowd sounds that are more similar to a jet plane taking off in a reverb tank than a real crowd. Ok enjoy
Breakthrough
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