Less than a month after dropping highly-praised and widely-loved full-length album Summer at Land’s End, the ever-prolific Glenn Donaldson returns with a new EP of sad chamber pop. Intentionally or not, the three songs on “Slow Torture of an Hourly Wage” by the Reds, Pinks & Purples follow the classical structure of a sonata: a lively, uptempo opener, a slower middle movement, and then an uptempo closer. It’s a structure that works and, regardless of tempo, the voice remains gently despondent yet hopeful enough to sing away the pain.
