With Pulsing Colours, Ryan Hicks finds meaning in the darkness

When it comes to recording albums, it’s all about the concept for Ryan Hicks.
On Prairie Ocean, his first full-length album, Hicks wrote about growing up in Saskatchewan and California. His followup, Pulsing Colours, focuses on serious issues such as mental health and suicide.
Concept albums are rare in the industry where the norm is albums featuring a mix of material and subject matter with the focus on finding hit singles. That’s not the way it works for Hicks.
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