★★★★★
Despite the fact that Chuck Berry and Ike Turner pretty much invented this thing we call rock'n'roll, Living Colour surfaced in the late 80s to a chorus of "Can a Black group play heavy rock?" chin-stroking from establishment rock critics, ignoring the fact that Funkadelic had definitively answered this question a decade or so previously, and that the 1980s proved a boom-time for great rock'n'roll performed by African-American groups (cf Bad Brains, Fishbone)...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Vivid was a newsworthy release: Four black musicians playing heavy metal. Sadly, the black-rock trend never panned out, and now, the band's music has become its greatest legacy. A landmark fusion, Vivid is the glorious sound of smart people ? especially shredmaster guitarist Vernon Reid and superdrummer Will Calhoun ? rocking very hard, goosed by hardcore, funk and avant-jazz...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Living Colour did more straddling than a Chinese balance-beam queen. They were black guys playing "white" music?flashy metal. They were headed by avant garde guitarist Vernon Reid, yet trying to get over on MTV in the late '80s ("Cult of Personality" was in heavy rotation). They were sophisticates?the singer was an actor, the drummer dug jazz?wooing the heartland...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Sound: When I was just a wee-lad, Living Colour was one of the first bands I started listening to. I loved there first album Vivid with a passion (and I still do.) Yet on Vivid, I found there versitility and ablity to try other things week (except for the first track). Then about last year, I heard through the grape vine that they were releasing their fist studio album in 10 years, I was shocked thinking that they had fallen of the face of the earth...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-06-19
★★★★★
Hard 'n' conscious guitar 'n' bass ("Back in Black," "A ? of When").
- www.robertchristgau.com
2010-06-11
★★★★★
Great players and unusually reliable thinkers, they still have something to prove and more to teach, especially to the hard-rock faithful ("Asshole," "Burned Bridges").
- www.robertchristgau.com
2010-02-12
★★★★★
The rumors of Living Colour's demise have been greatly exaggerated. They are back, but perhaps more to the point, they were never really gone. The Chair in the Doorway, their fifth official album in 21 years, should not lead anyone to conclude that this band is rock music's Rip Van Winkle. None of them have been sleeping: they seem to disappear for extended siestas, only to return enervated and voracious...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-12-10
★★★★★
Sound: I can't believe no one has reviewed this album at all. Well, Living Colour, who is still one of my favorite bands today, has always been a "funk metal" staple since they released their debut album "Vivid" nearly 20 years ago. In my opinion, "Vivid" is a classic Living Colour record to date. You gotta love the songs like "The Cult of Personality", "Funny Vibe" and "Glamour Boys", they're all classics and worth listening to as well...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Summary: Everyone's favourite colour is back... With a song of '09 contender in tow! As effective opener 'Burned Bridges' builds up over its three and a half minute duration, it gives off an exciting sense of an upcoming explosion. Climaxing with Vernon Reid's frantic guitar-playing, one cannot help but feel that Living Colour's first album in six years could be a return to the form which saw them storm on to the scene two decades ago, collecting Grammys along the way...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2009-10-31
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