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1.	Another Sorrow 04:23	buy track
2.	Don’t Say Goodbye 03:13	buy track
3.	Heaven 02:32	buy track
4.	All My Friends Are Gone 02:48	buy track
5.	Diver 03:36	buy track
6.	Winter 02:46	buy track
7.	Sirens 03:53	buy track
8.	I Will Never See Tomorrow 02:48	buy track

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Diver is our 6th album. On all digital platforms via Sotron Records.

artwork by Anders Nygaard

guitar & vocals by Christian Dam

bass by Anders Bøe

drums by Håvard Berstad

all songs mastered by Eric

Sotron Records 2023

Rosyoverdrive
Here at Rosy Overdrive, we love a good prolific lo-fi jangle pop project, and so it was only a matter of time before we shone the spotlight on Oslo’s The Age of Colored Lizards. The band is led by singer/guitarist Christian Dam, sometimes with a backing band, sometimes on his own; on Diver, the third Age of Colored Lizards album of 2023, Dam is assisted on bass by Anders Bøe and on drums by Håvard Berstad. Back in April, Dam put out Hang On, an album that contained a solid amount of noisy, distorted indie pop songs as well as some quieter moments; it appears that the trio are zeroing in on the project’s sparser, more subdued side to close out the year. The louder guitars are in the minority this time, with the bulk of Diver’s 26 minutes taken up by deliberate, delicate pop songs that even trend towards slowcore territory in some places.

“Another Sorrow” is an impressively low-key opener, relying on little more than whispered vocals and heavily-reverbed guitar strumming to ease us into Diver just about as leisurely as possible. In the second slot, “Don’t Say Goodbye” is a sleepy but fuzzier piece of jangle pop with a hook that perhaps cements it as the album’s “hit”. The only other real rocker on the record, “All My Friends Are Gone”, also occurs in the first half, although it has a darkness to its noise pop that fits its title. Songs like the acoustic-based “Heaven” and “Winter” represent the other end of The Age of Colored Lizards–skeletal, unconcerned with meeting the “pop” side of the band halfway at all. Somewhere in the middle is the title track and “Sirens”, which give the second side of Diver a mellow but still jangly feeling. There are moments of warmth throughout Diver, but it certainly feels like a winter record–the haunted “I Will Never See Tomorrow” is a pretty dark send-off for something that can be as friendly as Diver is in its catchiest moments, but it’s far from out of step from The Age of Colored Lizards as a whole.

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released November 16, 2023

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The Age of Colored Lizards Oslo, Norway

The band with the weird name. Yeah, that pretty much covers it.

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3 A.M.

Apr 2024
Picture of You

Jan 2024
Diver

Nov 2023
June

Sep 2023

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