Ars Nova Sunshine & Shadows Vinyl LP Pink Colour 2024

Pink Colour

Tracklist:

1. Sunshine & Shadows
2. I Was Once
3. Temporary Serenade
4. She Promises Everything
5. Well, Well, Well
6. You Had Better Listen
7. Round Once Again
8. Walk On The Sand
9. Rubbish
10. Please Don’t Go Now

NY Psychedelic Art Rock!

Touted as the “new Doors,” Ars Nova’s second release shows the band genre-bending jazz and heavy psychedelia in a style that’s their own. Shifting from a largely classical centric sound, this was the group’s last album before going their separate ways. Pressed on pink vinyl!

Sunshine & Shadows takes the baroque-meets-psych sound of the debut and turns a bit more to the psych side. The stately brass interludes are gone, but horns still figure prominently in the mix. There’s some jazzy New Orleans flavor to a couple of the tunes, albeit twisted into a 7/4 vamp on “You Had Better Listen