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Floridada - yellow and blue, no dominant colour or mood, lots of swirls, quite hard to pin down, in fact.
Hocus Pocus - similar confusion, I'm starting to suspect the lack of character and warmth to the synth sounds, the vocal harmonies make me visualise these burnt orange streaks across the dark canvas, though.
Vertical - pale blue and green for the vocals, plenty of movement, swirls again, the thin synths add very pale texture and highlights to this. Again, not a lot of richness to the instrumentation so the warmth all comes from the vocals.
Lying In The Grass - kind of gross, like TMNT green and Splinter smoking jacket purple, the piano and sax add some white light to cut through it. The downbeat harmony matches the slightly grimy palette. This is a really weird diversion for AC and Noah, kind of channels the Mr. Noah sludge.
Burglars - Those overdriven flangey synths again, no particular emotions or colour to them, just white and grey. The vocals are like Vertical again, quite thin and light, make me visualise sky blues.
Natural Selection - very similar to Hocus Pocus, the synths are more squelchy again, more like black background with the orange and yellow vocals smeared across them, the sneaky ways are bright orange, thick acrylic paint.
Bagels In Kiev - the hazy opening actually has lots of muted colour, quite pastoral, the verses are also quite muted for me, purple and green like LITG but less cartoony, the middle section bursts open with yellow and blue, kind of like Father Time.
On Delay - the most vibrant tones so far, the undulating synth is a purple river and Dave's verses are back to that thin sky blue while Noah is smearing yellow and orange across the top, really great mixture here, this synth sound feels more warm and rich and human. Then you've got the splashes of yellow and white piano and it all gets very bright before the purple synth comes back and Noah sets the sun with those swooping orange strokes.
Spilling Guts - again, the synths are much more alive, this is bright orange and red, song of the album for me, so full of life and joy, the vocals are thick and oily, liberal splodges, very primary school classroom wall.
Summing The Wretch - quite warmed up now, Noah's voice is so orangey. The backing track is very dark again but more purple than grey and black. 'Don't get caught' is really rich and red and orange.
Golden Gal - Dave goes Noah. Rich and warm, from yellow to red, quite rusty.
Recycling - Noah goes Dave. This sounded like pale blue to me from the first listen. The backing track is like turquoise mac and cheese, rounded edges, quite cartoony, and the vocals are very yellow and blue, those higher white notes mixed into the melody are like Aquafresh toothpaste with the stripes, blue and white lines mixed together.
