Don’t Sleep on Voyager’s Excellent New Album, Colours in the Sun

It’s been a long while since I’ve gotten super into anything remotely djenty, and I’m guessing the same is true for many of you as the genre crested some time ago. So I am here to tell you this, and shake you until you listen: do not sleep on Voyager’s new album, Colours in the Sun! It’s exquisitely orchestrated, expressively dynamic, endlessly catchy and, to the point, a very different bear than you’re expecting. It’s crept its way onto my best of the year list; yup, it’s that good.

As you may have heard on the album’s debut single, “Colours,” this version of Voyager is way into keyboards, and that, really, is all the difference. Not just any keyboards, but super retro, ’80s-inspired ones full of delicious analogue textures, which serve as the perfect complement to Daniel Estrin’s Dave Gahan-esque croon. There’s still plenty of the band’s trademark progginess and heaviness, too, which makes Colours the jubilant lovechild of Periphery and Depeche Mode. It’s the perfect retro-meets-modern soundtrack for these confusing times we live in.

Colours in the Sun is out now; jam it in full below and watch the video for “Colours”! Voyager will be supporting both Opeth and Poppy in their native Australia next month; dates here.