Colour Kane

If you peruse Colour Kane’s MySpace page, you’ll see this little descriptive phase: “flowery jet ears on cloudbeats”. Which, in all honesty, comes pretty close to describing the Belgium-based trio’s music quite aptly.

On their debut full-length, A Taste of (2007, Fade The World), the group’s blissed-out beats do little to add a sense of rhythm or propulsion to the songs. Rather, their focus is on defining even more airy, voluminous space for gossamery, shoegazer textures, effects-drenched guitars, and the voice of Marjan as she sings about lazy days and butterflies — when you can understand her glossolalia, that is.

Not surprisingly, the band has collaborated with Robin Guthrie, and even supported him on some tour dates. Guthrie’s influence, both via his solo work and the halcyon days of the Cocteau Twins, are all over these songs. It’s easy to dismiss this music as too frilly for its own good, and it’s certainly an acquired taste. But on a lazy Friday afternoon, when you’re nursing a growing headache, the gentle caress of music this light and gentle is a pretty welcome thing.