Track Listing

1. Good Stuff
2. Outlines
3. Love & Pain
4. Hearts On Fire
5. Gifted
6. Stuck In A Tight Spot
7. Dangerzone
8. Magic Touch
9. Making You All Mine
10. Garden Of Love
11. Goodbye

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64439 in Music
• Released on: 2005-07-25
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
The self-titled debut from Clor might not be quite what you'd expect from an outfit formed from members of Roots Manuva's live band, but this album is anything but a disappointment. Taking inspiration from the angular electronic post-punk of mid-period Devo, the pure techno pulse of Kraftwerk, and the enigmatic wordplay of Pavement, Clor is adventurous, original and unusually, for such experimentally-tinged albums, almost criminally tuneful.

Kicking off with the excellent "Good Stuff", singer-guitarist Barry Dobbin immediately nails his eccentric colours to the mast, singing about sucking up poison "though a curly straw" over metronomic beats and neat stabs of guitar. Interestingly, Clor seldom turn to that old chestnut of rock, the distortion pedal: "Love + Pain" is so clean the melody veritably sparkles, while "Dangerzone" slows things down and spaces out, like a 21st Century remake of Kraftwerk’s spartan "Radioactivity". Meanwhile, on "Hearts On Fire", they pull that trick that few but the Super Furry Animals can successfully pull off, morphing from rock song to techno workout with such eminent skill you can barely see the join. A remarkable debut. --Louis Patterson

CD Description
'Clor' is the debut album from the London-based band of thesame name. Combining bizarre lyrical references with elements of punk-funk and indie, the album is a mish-mash of musical patterns and references that will appeal to fans of The Rapture and Beck. Includes the singles 'Love + Pain' and 'Outlines'.

Customer Reviews

Well I liked it
After seeing the live show, and loving the two singles (LOVE + PAIN and OUTLINES), I thought it would be worth getting the album. I had some doubts that the live sound would work on record, but Clor have obviously realised this and have adapted the songs to fit.
And it's a cracker of an album! Although the band have pop sensibility and excellent song writing talent (think fall and early devo), the upbeat keyboard-based tunes, sparse use of guitars and mostly electronic drums will not appeal to everyone. If your taste in music is a little quirky then the album might be perfect for you. Clor obviously have alot of good ideas, but instead of dwelling on them, each song is over in a 3 minute blur, even the album's masterpiece (Garden of Love) is only about three and a half minutes.

Chances are, if you've liked any of the singles (the third single GOOD STUFF is going to be released soon) then you'll like the album.

Packed with would be hits in an 80s style; impossibly good!
With Live8 romanticising the musical summer of twenty years ago, Duran Duran playing stadiums, 'Hit Me Baby One More Time', those funny uber-mullets that suddenly loads of blokes are wearing (not me, no chance!) and now this; 2005 really has been the year of that most unexpected of revivals, an eighties one! Totally uncalled for too if you ask me, speaking as someone who can well remember that painful decade, it was rubbish and the music was, by and large, dire (straits).

None of that should reflect badly on Clor though. Their debut starts at the place Blur left off with 'Trouble In The Message Centre', injecting that Numanoid template with so many pop hooks and lyrical songs that even the most die hard eighties detractor will surely be won over. Singer Barry and guitarist Luke (formerly DJ's at the eclectic Bad Bunny club night in Soho) aren't just mere electro-pop boffins though, they've clearly indulged in some Can, Eno, Roxy Music and there's probably the odd BBC Radiophonic Workshop album in their DJ box too! It's all tastefully thrown into their melting pot of pop madness. The opening trio alone ('Good Stuff','Outlines','Love + Pain') are each would be or actual singles that could easily spark a resurgence of interest in The Human League and Sparks. This is one of those amazing first albums where the band arrives out of nowhere already fully formed, great things surely await!

Team Clor
Clor are really a wicked new band to have managed to break through. So many new bands at the moment are producing non-original stuff that sounds boring and done before, this band are fresh and new with all the old cool influences! I think the music is quite technically intellectual, and i have seen them live and they can play it all tighter and more on it than the alubm! it really is a cd you have for your music collection, these guys are gonna be huge!!! p.s dangerzone is my favourite.