I think these are a sophisticated and simple way of applying colour.
They aren't detracting from or over processing the response and experience, they are enhancing it.
It almost seems like they have been screen-printed as importantly they keep the raw, analogue textures of the specific instinctive expressions.
Colour is very important to me when experiencing music and these are the colours which I associate each band with:
Green River - mid green (green is quite an unnerving and controversial colour, like the content of their music and the richness of their grunge sound)
Fanny - purple (I find purple a powerful funky/boogie colour and I can't listen to their music without dancing and singing)
The Doors - deep blue (the deepness of the blue reflects the poetic and contemplatory lyrics of their songs, their music is very bluesy and complexly chilled)
Elastica - maroon (think this colour is perfect here. It's an aggressive colour but in a warmer and more metallic way than the green is raw for grunge. This is appropriate to the music)
Beach Boys - pale blue (a very calming, optimistic, summery, warm and positive colour like classic pop and lightness of the songs)
Buzzcocks - red (quite an angry colour, stimulating and bright like their fast paced engaging punk)
Jefferson Airplane - warm grey (quite calming 70s, not a bright colour yet warm harmonies and resolved phrases . Like grey quite bare and stripped back melodies and instruments)
Mudhoney - dark green (so much feedback from guitars through a very heavy and deep colour. dark because everything is quite low)
King Gizzard - bright orange (vibrant like the energy of their music, garish like the electricity of the instruments, stimulating like the continuity and drive of the psychedelic music)
The Cure - mint (pale intensity of colour reflects the unusual melodics and rhythms in the songs, pastel tones because it is quite soft music)
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