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This reissue of the 1980 Resurrection Band album _Colours_ shows that classic rock stations may just have a point when they call what they play "classic" rock. This album rocks hard and unrelentingly. Wendi Kaiser's voice on the first song sounds less hardened than on later Rez efforts and the song (and her voice!) as a whole recalls Heart as much as it does anything else. Other tracks, especially those with Glenn Kaiser's lead vocals, are very much in the Aerosmith/Nazareth hard rock vein. While I'm much too young to have appreciated this album the first time around (I was only four when it first came out!) yet the songs are well-written, and the album doesn't sound like a museum piece. The lyrics are informed by the social consciousness which marks much of the Resurrection Band's work throughout the last 30 years, and there is also a certain eschatological expectation in songs like "Colours" and "An American Dream."

As far as bonus features go on this reissue, it is an enhanced CD of sorts, consisting of a single webpage with brief commentary and photos from the original LP jacket. From my standpoint, this didn't add much to the value. More important is that the sound of this reissue is clean and well-mastered. It sounds GOOD. And that's perhaps the best reason I can think of to go and get this CD--the Resurrection Band, unlike many other long-lived bands, has had a fairly consistently high quality of musicianship and lyrics throughout their history, and while dated, it still rocks well enough to deserve being cranked. And, to be honest, there's not many Christian rock albums from 1980 which can hold that claim.

Alex Klages 7/11/2004