21st Century Piano Pop for fans of Tori Amos, Rufus Wainwright, Ben Folds Brian Hazard is bored with pop music. He listens to talk radio in the car, and skips over the singles when he listens to CDs at home. To have any chance of success in the highly competitive realms of radio and live performance, today’s pop songs need to be mind-numbingly repetitive. If the listener doesn’t catch on by the second chorus, they change the station or leave the bar. It’s as simple as that. Color Theory offers something less commercial intimate pop music with depth. The instrumentation of the new album falls somewhere between a rock band and a Broadway musical: piano, vocals, fretless bass, drums (courtesy of the legendary Jonathan Moffett), string quartet, vibraphone, flute, and harp.