So we’ve been harping on for ages that we’ve been in the studio working on new material but we’ve been pretty slack on keeping everyone updated.

We started last November and it’s been a slow process, more so than we ever anticipated. We are now in the mixing stages though, and even rough copies of the tracks sound great (we would think that)!

We’re going to post up more from the sessions as the mixes get sorted but hopefully we’re on the home straight.

We would like to take this moment to send out a massive thanks to Bob Cooper - Music Producer and ‘Crooked Rain Studios’ for helping us in the recording process and putting up with all our shit. There’s been arguments, mood swings, frustrations, but also fun, laughter, experimenting and 'nerding out' with pedals plus deep conversations which ultimately led to us marking a whole load of cool noise. Hopefully we can bring you some of that noise sooner rather than later.

It’s International Women’s Day and we want to send this dedication out to Grace Deione who came out on tour with us in 2017.

Although we’re a band with an exclusively male make-up we would always encourage and support women in music, whether it’s with an instrument, as road crew, in journalism or promotion. We need more women everywhere in an utterly male dominated industry, full of uneasy levels of machismo.

We embrace everyone in the CoS family and having a female driver ontour was nothing other than an totally positive and liberating experience, Grace was one of the team, unmoved my the male dominated presence.

It’s made us reflect on our own image as a all male group and we’ve made efforts to change that where possible.

Fuck the posturing, fuck the rock star bullshit, fuck the male egos.

Being in a band is hard; like, really fucking hard. Imagine dealing with a relationship involving one person and all the idiosyncrasies that come along with that, the personalities, the opinions, the considerations, the emotions, the compromise; then times that by four and you’re somewhere close to imagining the internal workings of a band. Then throw in the mix external commitments and relationships on top of the notion of writing music together and the whole thing becomes a plate-spinning act that needs to be constantly maintained.

It’s hard to keep up it all up at the best of times and it’s certainly no easier five years in, the reality is that it only gets more challenging as time goes on. Internally 2018 felt like a tough one and we could have easily given up, watching everything smash to the ground.

Tom leaving the band at the beginning of the year was a great loss, realised more so now on reflection than at the time. Compound that with two very close family losses to battles with cancer, personal journeys through depression, members combatting severe anxiety and a general disintegration of mental health in a number of instances has put the band and music secondary below personal wellbeing and roads to recovery.

Luckily we’ve had the openness and closeness of each other to get through all this together which is something to be cherished.

It’s also put the band in perspective of what we want to do and where we want to be moving forward. We’re really excited to be going back into the studio this month and really feel the new songs we're recording reflect where we are currently as a band and as people.

At this point we’d like to thank Sean for his help on bass through 2018 and wish him all the best with his future projects in 2019. We’d also like to send out a massive thanks to Charlie for all his time in the band too. Words can’t do justice to how great it’s been having him around for the last 18 months but it’s at this point our roads sadly part, much love and respect.

We’ll keep you up to date through the recording process and will bring you news as and when it comes.

We’ll see you all later in 2019.

💰 BLACK FRIDAY OFFER - 50% off ALL merch!! 💰

That's right people, we're doing a Black Friday Sale offering a whopping 50% off all merch at our Bandcamp Store until midnight on Sunday. Make savings on Tees, Vinyl, Totes, or save even more with our merch bundles using the code below:

CODE: bf50

!!! NEW SHOWS - SEPT + OCT !!!

We've been pretty quiet on most fronts recently, but we're excited to announce two ace shows for you in September & October. Check out all the details below:

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SEPT 25th: Bleeding Knees Club @ Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds

FB EVENT: https://bit.ly/2wkUfDn TICKETS: https://bit.ly/2BzLqeE

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OCT 20th: Ultra Fest 2018 @ The Adelphi, Hull w/bloody knives, No Nothings, SISTERAY, Bloodhound, BEACH RIOT, Polevaulter and more!!

FB Event: https://bit.ly/2Nbu75b TICKETS: https://bit.ly/2N7jbp4 (Proceeds going towards Aaron's Battle)

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!! TAAE: TRAMLINES - TRUBBLE COMES HOME !!

After being a little quiet recently we're excited to have a gig announcement as we return to The Audacious Art Experiment in Sheffield for their Tramlines Fringe Festival - TAAE Tramlines: Trubble comes home.

The festival runs over two days on 20th & 21st July with bands and DJ's from evening until the early hours of the morning.

For full details check out the FB Event page: https://goo.gl/ZEsq5y

We play Long Division Festival this weekend. It’s a cracking line-up and we can’t wait to be there and check it out!!

!! PINKSHINYULTRABLAST support 13th MAY !!

We're super stoked to announce we'll be supporting Pinkshinyultrablast at Brudenell Social Club along with Warm Digits on 13th May.

We're extra excited about this one as it'll be the first time we've played the new Community Room too, as well as loving PSUB.

DM us for mates rates on tickets, see event details below:

NME RIP 😥

It's sad news this week to hear about NME no longer publishing a print edition of the magazine. For so many years it was the institution of alternative music news, yet another giant of the printed press has fallen.

❤️ SOLILOQUY LIVE @ MATERIAL STUDIOS ❤️

The second of our session tracks recorded at Material Studios in Liverpool while on tour last October.

❤️ ECHOES PERFORMED LIVE @ MATERIAL STUDIOS ❤️

🎉🎉 THANKS 2017 🎉🎉

What can we say about 2017? It's been a funny old year in many ways. Internally for Colour of Spring it's been a transitional period where lots has changed. At points it's almost felt like we've had to start again, but in retrospect it's been positive experience, a Phoenix from the Flames so to speak, with a future we can all get excited about.

Over the last 12 months we've invited Charlie and Mark into the band which we could never have wished to go better, you never know how new members will work out, but we can honestly say it feels like we've gained two new bothers who gelled into Colour of Spring instantly as people, while also broadening our musical direction to where we feel we're now making the music we always wanted to make.

We've bought out two fabulous releases with Clue Records and their ambitious 'Clue Club' project which we're incredibly proud to be a part of, as well as the our biggest release to date the 'e.p.' EP on House of Love Records, which couldn't have gone down any better with fans and the press. With the single 'Love' has clocking up almost 35K of plays on SoundCloud, (which is no mean feat) 'e.p.' continues to get the praise we always hoped it would.

We also saw out the final leg of the year with our 9 date UK tour in October which was an absolute blast. Travelling up and down the country playing to new people and new friends is what it's all about.

COLOUR OF SPRING ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2017:

Every year we like to put together our favourite albums of the last 12 months for you guys to check out. Here's a list of our best picks from 2017:

Beach Fossils - Somersault Baxter Dury – Prince of Tears Four Tet – New Energy Omni - Multitask BIB - Moshpit Hoops - Routines Fever Ray - Plunge Florist - If Blue Could Be Happiness The Physics House Band – Mercury Fountain DUDS – Of A Nature or a Degree

We also decided to create a Spotify playlist of our favourite tracks from all our AOTY selections spanning from 2014-17. Check it out below!

‘SNOW’ AIRED ON GARAGE RECORDINGS

* NEW MERCH BUNDLES *

We’ve put together new merch bundles at our Bandcamp shop, including VINYL + T-SHIRT + TOTE BAG and for this weekend only we’re doing them at the special price of just £12 making a MASSIVE SAVING of £7 on all three items!

EXCLUSIVE NEW TRACK 'SOLILOQUY' AIRED ON GARAGE RECORDINGS

Last Thursday we did a couple of special stripped down versions of songs for Garage Recordings, including an exclusive first air of new track ‘Soliloquy’.