The Colour Blue

 The Colour Blue are best known for their contribution to the eighth chapter of The Emo Diaries. There are a lot of bands on The Emo Diaries, so if that isn't ringing any bells, perhaps you may remember them as the band that gifted us with the rare (and perhaps only?) emo track which begins with an extended saxophone solo. Yes, it's exactly as strange as you would expect, an addition that gives the emo pop a noir-ish, steamy quality, and it's... certainly something.

However you decide to feel about that, the band's previous songs are nothing like it. The band's first release, 2000's split with Kill Devil Hills, features rough emo pop with a lot of 90s pop punk in it. In the following two years the band would change recording studios and also change their music direction, resulting in the far more polished indie emo sound of The Emo Diaries track, which was taken from a self-titled two-song 7" that was the band's second and last release. While I don't have a direct rip of the 7", I have MP3s for both songs, "Of Our Disregard" and "Circa Us." 

Perhaps deciding that their new direction was too drastic to not require a name change, the band would change their name to Took To The Sea, and their sole release under that name appears to be a split four-way with Unique Chique, Soft Focus, and The Progress called For Starters. I also have a unique track I found on Soundcloud which seem to be a song that The Colour Blue recorded during their transition to Took To The Sea.

The Colour Blue \ Kill Devil Hills + For Starters + Compilation and Soundcloud Tracks