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The Reds, Pinks & Purples is a San Francisco indie band led by Glenn Donaldson (The Ivy Tree, Skygreen Leopards, Art Museums and Painted Shrine).

Touring history: Pitchfork Fest London & Woodsist Fest as well as support slots for indie legends such as Destroyer, Guided By Voices, and The Feelies.

For fans of… Guided By Voices, The Chills, Teenage Fanclub, The Shins, The Replacements, Leonard Cohen, The Go- Betweens, Robert Wyatt.

Having penned over 200 songs in the last six years, The Reds, Pinks and Purples release a collection of tracks previously unreleased on physical format that continues to romanticise the wonders and woes of the world. With song titles that read like chapter sub-heads for a post-Douglas Coupland novella, ‘The Past Is A Garden I Never Fed’ takes The Reds, Pinks and Purples central orator Glenn Donaldson through the turmoil of small talk and everyday water cooler moments with a fine sense of pathos and irony.

Set to a soundtrack that swerves between the dark days of Television Personalities and Byrdsian twang to the Jarvis Cockerstyled rhetoric and vocal tenderness of ‘Richard In the Age Of The Corporation’ with hints of everything from Husker Du’s fuzzed splendour to the chiming majesty of The Chameleons it’s an empowering listen.

The pathos and irony of the glorious track ‘The World Doesn’t Need Another Band’ sets out the band’s store, it’s a measured and quietly outspoken rant at lacklustre opposition peppered with a gorgeous guitar break. Meanwhile, ‘I Only Ever Wanted To See You Fail’ rumbles with an Eddie And The Hot Rods pre-punk riff before dissolving into a tale of self-doubt and remorse, bemoaning others’ good luck. ‘Toxic Friend’ is from the book of the TVP’s Daniel Treacey with an upbeat chorus that smacks of all that was good in old school indie in a hail of fuzzy logic and guitars.

From humble beginnings as a home recording project, The Reds, Pinks and Purples has blossomed into a sporadic live unit with tours on both sides of the Atlantic and appearances at Pitchfork Fest London and Woodsist Fest as well as support slots for indie legends such as Destroyer, Guided By Voices, and The Feelies.

“Donaldson’s best work hides allure within a bigger picture, like a jangle-pop egg hunt” Pitchfork.

Label
Fire Records
Genre
Alternative LP - SIDE A
The World Doesnt Need Another Band
I Only Ever Wanted to See You Fail
A Figure on the Stairs
Slow Torture of an Hourly Wage
Trouble Dont Last
Youre Never Safe from Yourself
Your Cult is on Fire
LP - SIDE B
My Toxic Friend
Your Taste Makes You Strange
Marty as a Youth
Whats the Worst Thing you Heard?
No One Absolves us in the End
Richard in the Age of the Corporation
There Must be a Pill for This

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