You Might Be Happy Someday, by The Reds, Pinks & Purples

You Might Be Happy Someday

by The Reds, Pinks & Purples

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1.	Last Summer In A Rented Room 03:04	buy track
2.	Forgotten Names 03:27	buy track
3.	Worst Side of Town 03:19	buy track
4.	Your Parents Were Wrong About You 03:06	buy track
5.	Desperate Parties 02:36	buy track
6.	Half-a-Shadow 03:11	buy track
7.	Sex, Lies & Therapy 03:10	buy track
8.	You Might Be Happy Someday 02:16	buy track

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Deep amidst San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood misty air and washed-out pastel blocks, Glenn Donaldson has been diligently creating minor masterpieces with rudimentary home technology for some time now. With The Reds, Pinks & Purples, Donaldson has finally created a vivid reflection of this dreary scene. You Might be Happy Someday is an oblique strand of SF outer-avenue cloud cover that stretches across the Atlantic to the grey docks of Bristol as captured in Sarah Records’ fetishized insert photos.

Despite the deceptively congenial presentation, Happy is often a heavy record. After a litany of Donaldson’s past iterations (from experimental abstraction to post-punk and pop), The Reds, Pinks & Purples is Glenn D’s most personal project. Balanced awkwardly atop almost ironically upbeat jangles and rhythms Mitch Easter might have captured on his reel-to-reel are prime cuts of bummer pop. Almost every track is written in second person, creating a feeling of overheard private inner conversations-on-repeat: soft-lob criticisms, supportive friend advice and embarrassing confessions, You Might be Happy Someday is a smeared window into the (kindly) cynical thoughts of a romantic misanthrope.

Like the work of other U.S. depresso-pop purveyors East River Pipe, The Reds, Pinks & Purples’ mini-album is the kind of record that is both unsettling and comforting. When you’re four drinks deep and you’ve worn your Smiths records out, You Might Be Happy Someday is on deck to have wine spilled on it while you dance alone in the kitchen.

You Might Be Happy Someday is released on 2nd Oct 2020 by Tough Love

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released October 2, 2020

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The Reds, Pinks & Purples San Francisco, California

DIY kitchen pop project of Glenn Donaldson (Skygreen Leopards, Art Museums etc). Uncommon Weather LP is out now via Slumberland (US) & Tough Love (UK).

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