COLONY 5 COLONISATION ALBUM MEMENTO MATERIA RELEASE: JANUARY 28, 2004 REVIEW: JANUARY 28, 2004

The Swedish band Colony 5 makes futurepop smitten with sing-a-long choruses and blisteringly fast basslines and sequences. This album is a kind of compilation of different singles as well as three new tracks, and it gives a good impression of how they sound, I guess. Most of the stuff on here is very high energy, and the vocals have that dramatic “descendant of Elegant Machinery” synthpop style to it.
The thing is, after a while it all just blends together, with little variation. This isn’t a “real” album, so I think this is excusable, but I just want to point out that this bunch of songs works best – very well actually – in smaller doses. P-O Svensson and Magnus Kalnin are very skilled in the technical department, but I feel that their material lacks a certain something, that extra ingredient that makes you want to come back for more. Within the genre Colony 5 are ahead of the class and I think they will go far. The next full length album will point to where they’re going.

JOHAN CARLSSON