Couleurs

"Couleurs" was written by Anthony Gonzalez and is track five of Saturdays = Youth, 8:34. It was the album's first single, released on February 25, 2008, and MusicBrainz lists a Jori Hulkkonen remix (9:11) as the second track of the single, though we could not confirm a catalogue number, label or chart peaks. The album was recorded in 2007 at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, produced by Ken Thomas with Ewan Pearson and Gonzalez. We found no statement from Gonzalez on the song's subject, and the album's theme is adolescence and the influence of the 1980s.

PopMatters picks it as exemplary in a run of four compelling mid-album songs, Treble says it and "Graveyard Girl" are worth the price of the album, and Textura calls it a standout disco-funk track, Simple Minds in overdrive. Spin's Mosi Reeves singled it out, while Sputnik Music finds it simple and repetitive.

Other versions are a Sasha Invol2ver remix (10:41), the Hulkkonen remix and a 4:52 Hulkkonen edit on a remixes and B-sides compilation; the song also appears in DJ mixes on FabricLive 43 and Balance. We assumed our upload, a Topic channel audio, is the 8:34 album version, but did not check its length. We found no video, setlist.fm count or covers.