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Colours - Love Heals: The Complete Recordings
Hollywood’s magical mystery tour and more
Formed around the central partnership of Jack Dalton and Gary Montgomery (onetime Motown songwriters The Dalton Boys), the consciously Anglo-centric Colours counted members of Derek & The Dominos and The Beach Boys among their various line-ups. Signed to Dot on the basis of their sitar-and-bagpipe-hued novelty 45, Brother Lou’s Love Colony, Colours went on to release two albums for the label, their ambitious self-titled 1968 debut and the following year’s Atmosphere, neither of which made any commercial impact at the time.
Cooked up, at times, under the all too discernable influence of the Fab Four, Colours is unashamedly Pepper-esque in its use of lavish arrangements recorded in no-expense- spared fashion with the 36-piece LA Philharmonic. By contrast, Atmosphere is a darker, less generic and more subdued recording.
Besides marking the first time these long deleted albums have made it onto CD, Love Heals also includes Dalton & Montgomery’s White Whale 45 and three previously unreleased demos which pre-date Colours’ mid-1967 formation.
Now Sounds | CRNOW 3
Reviewed by Grahame Bent
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