{"id":16768,"date":"2015-12-29T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T10:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=16768"},"modified":"2015-12-29T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T10:24:23","slug":"colour-house-the-only-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/12\/colour-house-the-only-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Colour House &#8211; &#8216;The Only Way&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16769\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/12\/colour-house-the-only-way\/colour-house-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Colour-House-4.png?fit=994%2C996&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"994,996\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Colour House 4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Colour-House-4.png?fit=640%2C641&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16769\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Colour-House-4.png?resize=640%2C641&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Colour House 4\" width=\"640\" height=\"641\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Colour House, from London, describe their music as Anglicana-Americana; their new single, &#8216;The Only Way&#8217;,\u00a0has a stripped back sound reflecting their many influences, including country, folk, rock and indie.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recorded at Sound Lounge Studios, in Merton, South London, the single, &#8216;The Only Way&#8217; tells a tale of conflict: asking if it&#8217;s the only way we know how to settle disputes; to fight, to battle, to go to war over things that shouldn&#8217;t really matter in the end. &#8220;Is this the only way that we know how?&#8221; A seasonal tune in a lot of ways &#8211; it&#8217;s the time of year when we reflect on those who have gone before us, what we&#8217;ve done, what we could have done better. &#8216;The Only Way&#8217; is a song of hope, causing us to wonder if we could actually find a different way to solve our differences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can find Colour House on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colourhouseband\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/colourhouse\" target=\"_blank\">Soundcloud<\/a>, and their <a href=\"http:\/\/southtownlost.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>\u00a0(currently attributed to South Town Lost, their former band name).<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F233325193&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;visual=true&#038;show_comments=true&#038;color=false&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new single from Colour House, &#8216;The Only Way&#8217;, is a stripped back Americana song reflecting their many influences, including country, folk, rock &#038; 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