History Music / CityAndColour

Music/CityAndColour is [[CanadianMusic Canadian]] singer/guitarist Dallas Green's side project begun while he was still in the Post-Hardcore band {{Alexisonfire}}. (Technically, though, he'd begun composing the various songs that would eventually make their way onto the albums since his early teenage years.) The genesis of the act lay in the various demo tapes Dallas had recorded and distributed to a limited extent, which found their way to the internet eventually, prompting various Alexisonfire fans to voice their support of Dallas releasing a solo record. Dallas, not yet certain of branching off into a solo side project while still fully engaged with Alexisonfire, decided that if people liked the demos--some of which were of marginal quality--he'd at least record more put-together versions of them and release the tracks on a solo album. (These songs did not make their way onto Alexisonfire albums due to the fact that the band members had agreed early on that all five of them will be equally involved in the creative process for any songs that would be on the band's albums.) Not feeling comfortable with putting his real name on the record, he came up with the moniker [[PunnyName City And Colour]] to release the solo materials under. The resulting record, ''Sometimes'', met with positive reception, eventually going platinum in Canada.

... like a butterfly, away from the north\\

* CallBack: Dallas occasionally utilizes lyrics he'd previously sung on {{Alexisonfire}} songs. Examples:

** "Day Old Hate" seems to draw a few lyrical themes from "No Transitory"--the songs' addressees' worlds "[going] up into flames", for example.

** "Sam Malone" is named after the bartender from {{Cheers}}. Further, the line "And I know some place where I can go, where no one knows my name" references the show's theme tune, which has the repeated line "where everybody knows your name".

** "Sam Malone" is named after the bartender from {{Cheers}}.

* CallBack: Dallas occasionally utilizes lyrics he'd previously sung on Music\Alexisonfire songs. Examples:

* CallBack: Dallas occasionally utilizes lyrics he'd previously sung on Music/Alexisonfire songs. Examples:

---> '''Born And Raised'':\\

* TextlessAlbumCover: ''Little Hell'', whose cover depicts a stylized field of tulips in the Netherlands.

* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Dallas sports an impressive quantity of tattoos, worthy of a musician with hardcore punk origins. Interviews and fan commentary paint him as a very nice, kind man who rarely loses his temper--unless, for example, someone at his concert has been messing with his fans.

* TitleTrack: Both ''Sometimes'' and ''Little Hell'' have one. At least for ''Little Hell'', Dallas came up with the song title before deciding it would be apt for the album as well.

* UnpluggedVersion: Not exactly an official (pressed) release, but "Fragile Bird" has a very good [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMcM4XS90wU recorded acoustic version.]]

Dallas's fourth solo album, ''The Hurry And The Harm'', is scheduled for release on June 4, 2013.

Dallas's third solo album, ''Little Hell'', was released in 2011. Featuring an even wider musical variety than ''Bring Me Your Love'', ranging from the solo guitar/vocal work that had dominated the earlier releases to soft rock, the third album also expanded its subject matter, offering emotional self-reflection as well as tributes to family and friends--including Dallas's now-wife Leah Miller, who he married after the release of ''Bring Me Your Love''.

** Even ''Bring Me Your Love'', which does not have a title track, does an AlbumTitleDrop in the chorus of the last song, "As Much As I Ever Could".

* BreakupSong: Quite a few, mostly of the "It's me, not you" or "I want you back" variety. The majority of these songs could be found on ''Sometimes''.

* ThisIsYourSong: "The Girl", likely addressed to Dallas's then-fiance (now wife). He thanks her for being there even when his job means that he must travel the world to pursue his dreams.

!This band provides examples of the following tropes: