For Immediate Release

September 4, 2026


THE REDS, PINKS & PURPLES FIND A NEW FOLK-INFLECTED DIRECTION

ON “EVERY SHADE OF BLUE” - LISTEN


ANNOUNCING NORTH AMERICAN LIVE DATES IN 2026 & UK DATES IN 2027


TRUE LOVE DAYDREAM EP 

ARRIVING SEPTEMBER 25 - PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE

Photo Credit: Samara Dun / Download Hi-Res Image

Following the release of Acknowledge Kindness, The Reds, Pinks & Purples announce a companion record, True Love Daydream, arriving on Friday, September 25The album will be available in digital and limited cassette formats only. Donaldson and the band will be performing in Brooklyn, NY at Baby's All Right on October 2 as part of a short US run.


Ever prolific, most of the music on True Love Daydream was created by Glenn Donaldson at the same time as Acknowledge Kindness. Donaldson eloquently describes the EP as "a little boat set adrift off the shore of the main album." 


Here, separated from the album, the music has space to ebb and flow, lingering in shimmering ambiance. Three of the songs on the EP are atmospheric instrumentals, a slight departure from Donaldson's classic songwriting, yet retaining the emotional depth that makes the music so captivating.  


"Every Shade Of Blue" is out now. Glenn comments:


"This is an older song, and the first song I made that I thought could be a signpost towards the future sound of Acknowledge Kindness. I wanted to bring out more of a folk feeling without sounding traditional at all. Steven R. Smith, a good friend from high school and a maker of dark solo instrumental music, added some atmospheres on this, as well as contributing to quite a few other tracks in the last year or so. I am always editing my work as I go, but this is one of the few songs where I feel like the words are truly finished."


LISTEN TO “EVERY SHADE OF BLUE”

LISTEN TO "HEAVEN OF LOVE (SLOW VERSION)"

PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE TRUE LOVE DAYDREAM


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THE REDS, PINKS & PURPLES – LIVE 2026-2027

US OCTOBER 2026

2 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right *

3 - Kingston, NY @ Tubby’s *

4 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s *


* - With Simon Joyner & The Ghosts

UK MARCH 2027

16 - Manchester@ Yes Pink Room

17 - Glasgow @ Mono

19 - Birmingham @ Hare & Hound

20 - Ramsgate @ Ramsgate Music Hall

21 - London @ Moth Club

THE REDS, PINKS & PURPLES

TRUE LOVE DAYDREAM

(Fire Records)

Release Date: September 25, 2026

TRACKLIST:

1. Shakespeare Garden Part I

2. Bad Poetry in Bed

3. Heaven of Love (Slow Version)

4. Shakespeare Garden Part II

5. Every Shade of Blue

6. Shakespeare Garden Part III

 

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PRAISE FOR ACKNOWLEDGE KINDNESS:

 

NPR New Music Friday 


"Sophisticated and well-crafted"

All Music Guide ★★★★


"So good"

KEXP


"Refined"

Brooklyn Vegan


“The most atmospheric and detailed Reds, Pinks & Purples record to date.” 

Tone Glow 

 

"Like The Cure put through smudgy shoegaze production." 

The Arts Desk


"The new record’s shaping up to be one of his best. "

Raven Sings The Blues

 

"One of the masters of melancholic modern music."

God Is In The TV Zine


“Refined and atmospheric” 

Freq 


"His most accomplished work to date"

Live4Ever ★★★★


“There’s a beauty within each track, carefully curated and lovingly created.”

Hope Collective 


“An album of the utmost caliber, certainly a milestone in the already

impressive body of work by The Reds, Pinks And Purples.”

Glitterhouse

 

“Gripping, equally powerful...The Reds, Pinks And Purples continue to evolve,

emphasizing familiar strengths – highly exciting.”

Beatblogger 

 

"Dramatic, yearning, wistful, intimate, slightly fragile, and melancholic"

ER-EM 


"There’s a touch of The National in the atmospheric guitar work while gothic

undertones add an expertly pitched uneasiness."

Spectral Nights


“So affecting: it treats the past as something alive and still capable of changing the shape of the present.”

13th Floor (NZ) 

 

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Press Contacts:

Ken Weinstein

weinstein@bighassle.com


Fia Kaminski

fia@bighassle.com