Flyying ColoursPsych-shoegaze trio Flyying Colours are heading down the Hume Highway to play their first interstate gigs in NSW. After confirming that he isn't driving, Brodie J Brümmer explains they will soon release a four-track EP to follow their well-received single Wavygravy. Though the single is their only studio recording so far, when it's suggested Flyying Colours are predominantly a live band, Brümmer counters, “Not at all. It's just quite a time consuming thing and we're all perfectionists. If we're going to do a recording, you know, it's like building a house for the songs to live in forever – you wanna make sure you do a really good job and that you do it the right way, and also in a way that [you're] happy with. I think we are definitely quite a strong recording band as well; it's just a matter of spending the time in the studio.”
Flyying Colours' hazy sound is often likened to shoegaze pioneers My Bloody Valentine, and Brümmer is neither reluctant nor eager to distinguish the band from that particular comparison. “I can see why people would make that specific link to our music, particularly Wavygravy does lend itself to that kind of guitar sound. But, like, there's a shoegaze element – and a Britpop '90s element is very strong within our music... We're kinda like an instrumental pop group, which is a fundamental thing about shoegaze. But we all listen to everything from the '90s, like, we are all massive Nirvana fans and grunge fans and Sonic Youth fans.”
