- Record Label: 300 Entertainment / Atlantic / Elektra / Warner
- Release Date: Oct 16, 2015
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Nov 5, 2015Pop rock rather than space prog, The Color Before the Sun is akin to his beloved Rush's permanent wave goodbye to fantasy epics in favor of radio-friendly AOR.
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Oct 16, 2015The music was recorded in a Nashville studio with few overdubs, which lends a welcome organic crunch at times. But overall, the consistency is not what it could be.
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Oct 16, 2015The Color Before the Sun is not the band's best record, but it is utterly inspired and almost nakedly sincere. It will likely play well to fans, but even more importantly, perhaps attract new ones.
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MagnetOct 14, 2015A degree of delicacy colors album number eight. [No. 125, p.55]
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Oct 13, 2015While many of the songs on The Color Before the Sun do fall into a certain post-hardcore formula that’s used over and over again throughout the album, the journey presented therein makes the difference.
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Kerrang!Oct 12, 2015A surprisingly concise, but still collates the quartet's strengths into a mostly satisfying whole. [10 Oct 2015, p.52]
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Alternative PressOct 12, 2015The Color Before The Sun manages to maintain momentum for its duration, proving Coheed have shown themselves a band skilled in evading the lines of genres. [Nov 2015, p.100]
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Oct 12, 2015After initial queasiness at a moment of amorousness in Eraser (‘I’m just a toy waiting for you to play me’), it quickly becomes business as usual in terms of their shamelessly enormous pop-rock music.
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Oct 12, 2015All in all, The Color Before the Sun doesn’t come close to matching Coheed and Cambria’s greatest achievements, but it’s a very worthwhile journey in its own right, and most fans will still find plenty to adore.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 22 out of 29
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Mixed: 4 out of 29
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Negative: 3 out of 29
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