''Colour Blind' taken from the album 'We Are Time', remastered from original tapes & released on CD & Digital for the first time in October 2014 by Freaks R Us The Pop Group Official Shop: http://bit.ly/1HGyWbj ITunes: We Are Time http://smarturl.it/WeAreTime-iTunes Rough Trade shops We Are Time CD and LP http://smarturl.it/WeAreTime-RoughTrade Curiosities boxset http://smarturl.it/Curiosities-RghTrd Amazon We Are Time LP http://smarturl.it/ThePopGroup-Freak1 We Are Time CD http://smarturl.it/ThePopGroup-Freak3 Curiosities boxset http://smarturl.it/TPG-CuriositiesBox Video By Rupert Goldsworthy Colour Blind, arguably The Pop Group's most wistful and melancholic moment, one full of yearning and anguish, reveals the band’s roots and signals their future musical trajectory. The song which lyrically evokes dying on a flaming crucifix, and dancing whilst held in surreal stasis, begins with an infant’s cries and gurglings, and ends with a fractured, fluttering guitar solo. Mark Stewart poetically reflects that the song was “a glimpse of the unknown / soaring wonderlust mixed with existential teenage angst / from the boys whose heads exploded.” The accompanying video is a compelling visual piece which mirrors the song’s intensity and melancholic brilliance with a frenetic flood of images. The creator of the piece, New York artist Rupert Goldsworthy commented: “It's the sound of a teenager trying to figure their way through the awkwardness of adolescent desires. The song's video tags these emotive cues with visual snips that mimic its keening tones, its Pere Ubu-like crooning wail, and the production's swoop and gyre, and its staccato boogie rhythms.” Mark elaborates further, with his thoughts on the video: “The transgressive short from fellow New Banalist and NYC artist Rupert Goldsworthy tears up maps, visualising the genderquakes of the period and features psychic photographer Ted Serious projecting images onto lens-capped cameras!” The Pop Group formed in Bristol in 1977 out of a sense of disenchantment with the increasing conservatism of punk. Drawing on an eclectic range of influences from free jazz, conscious funk, heavyweight dub to avant-garde experimentalism, alongside contemporaries like Public Image Limited, This Heat and Throbbing Gristle, they were at the forefront of a musical period marked out by its ground-breaking innovation. Their original missives, which Mark Stewart describes as “an index of possibilities”, still explode with an incandescent spirit and energy, possibilities expanded upon by recent live tours in Japan, America, Australia and the UK and the band's first studio album in 35 years, 'Citizen Zombie'. http://www.thepopgroup.net/