Whether you like (British) The xx or (Polish) Coals, the debut album of Color Blue – sorry, color blue – will be a great candidate for your bedroom listening.

It’s such a welcome coincidence. Just a week separated the relase of the third album by the Polish female-male duo Coals – an “eclectic and slightly nostalgic take on electro-pop,” as my colleague wrote – and the debut album of another Polish female-male duo calling themselves color blue. Becase color blue admit that they got fascinated with bedroom pop thanks to Coals.

Going international, the album titled “nie powód do płaczu” (“no reason to cry”) will obviously also remind you of The xx, and this direction seem to be confirmed by the fact that they also like to write their name (and their titles) lowercase, and they switch between male, female and mixed vocals too, with a great result.

Now while the whole 38-minute album is as consistent as you’d expect from the genre, what makes it surprising at least on the first listen is that they also keep swapping between Polish and English lyrics. And it’s one of the finest examples how you can make these two very different languages work together, almost as one.

Bedroom pop as color blue paint it is very different from what this music sounded like two decades ago, now strongly influenced by electronica and non-mainstream hip-hop. But in the end, it’s still music that believes that less is more, that daydreaming is cool, and that the best place to listen to music is your bedroom.

Stream “nie powód do płaczu” LP on Spotify.

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