Donny Hue and The Colors
Folkmote

PLAYBACK:stl - remarkable... one great big homegrown veggie garden of good, good vibrations. A

PopMatters - ...it winds through caffeinated piano-banging pop ("Real Long Time"), tambourine jangling, Elephant 6-ish head-trips ("Humming with the Flowerbirds"), Panda Bear-like wordless reveries ("For the Last Time Beatrice, It’s Toast"), and even a straight up, four-thudding rock song ("Peter and his Puzzle"). So many kinds of music, so little time… Donny Hue paints with the brightest sorts of colors.

WashingtonPost.com - Local boy does good -- really, really good -- on... his debut album. Highly recommended.

Washington Post Express - catchy, hummable tunes, rich with harmony and depth...live shows are always affairs to remember, with little separation between the energy of the audience and the seven backing musicians on stage.

Orlando Sentinel - the 11 songs on Folkmote are uplifting, occasionally whimsical and unfailingly melodic.

Independent Weekly (NC) - a debut that blends the huge swells of Spiritualized with the bittersweet bounce of Elephant 6's finest...the long-winded verse structure of a 1965 Bob Dylan cut, the addictive garage stomp of the best Nuggets gems and the flower-bazaar theatrics of the Olivia Tremor Control, a Donny Hue song keeps you just a few feet off the ground, lost in a multi-hued slipstream of a band that's eclectic out of principle and pragmatism.

NPR - every song is saturated beyond belief..."Real Long Time" sounds like a demented cover of The Velvet Underground's "Run Run Run" with ragtime piano and innumerable repetitions of "It takes a real long time!" To grasp all the instruments blasting through the speakers, it takes a few listens – some deep focus if you will.

Stereogum - cruising to the top of our playcount.

All Music Guide - post-psychedelic epic storytelling...finds the spot where twee and nightmares intersect.

Volume Knob - Here at VK we get lots of music recommendations from readers, artists, publicists and the like. Sometimes we like them. Sometimes we don't. And sometimes we're all-together floored (in a jaw-dropping good way). I'm beyond pleased to say that Donny Hue And The Colors fit into the latter category. ...rootsy, rollicking aesthetic that is simultaneously lovely, scrappy and at times transcendent.

Brightest Young Things - Their music is the closest to magical (sur)realism this city has to offer... a layered, wonderfully complex sound that is two parts symphonic chamber pop, one part folkloric with a sprinkling of nursery rhymes in it.

Smother Magazine - a symphonic gesture that is both unique and breathtaking.