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“Sprite” by COIN, Sunday, November 26, 2023 (repost)

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  Following up their 2020  album,  Dreamland , COIN  dropped three EPs in early 2021, leading up to their full album,  Rainbow Mixtape ,  released in April. The band wrote and recorded their follow-up album after their 2020 supporting tour  for  Dreamland  was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Singer  Chase Lawerence  sold his house at the beginning of the pandemic and moved back to his childhood home in Virginia where he began writing music for the next record. The band recorded many songs, yet the songs didn't seem to have a theme. “We broke it down to its elementary form and felt like colors represented the lyrical and sonic themes,” Lawerence told  American Songwriter.   Each song corresponded with a color and was released on three EPs.  Red-Orange, Blue-Green,  and  Indigo-Violet  make up the three sections of the band's fourth studio album. SUNRISE IN ORBIT . Rather than telling a story, like in their 2020 song " Cemetery ," "Sprite" speaks poeti