Semantics debut album, Paint Me Blue, is a stunning and powerful debut that will stay with you long after the final song fades. Produced by the band and mixed and mastered by Grammy-nominated producer Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Jeff Rosenstock, Joyce Manor), Paint Me Blue was recorded in a purpose-built studio constructed by the band themselves. The result is an expertly crafted album that showcases their impeccable songwriting and mastery of punk and indie sensibilities that lands somewhere between the post-punk of Title Fight and Joyce Manor, the all-consuming emo of Ceres and the iconic Aussie flair of Luca Brasi.

Named one of NME’s Top Australian Picks for May, Paint Me Blue is an affecting debut from the four-piece. Their latest single “Embrace Monotony” contemplates finding peace in the tedium of life in lockdown. "My prison is wide and free," sings frontman Callum Robinson over pensive guitars as paint is thrown at his face. As the song builds, so does the volume of paint culminating in a colourful and chaotic crescendo.

Robinson explains:
“Embrace Monotony was written early into the 2020 lockdown. We were cooped up in our place in Oxley for a long time, and we live on a main road. It went eerily quiet during the lockdown. No cars, no one walking, just restless pets and families in hermit mode. It was a really depressing environment in contrast to the beautiful, lively community Oxley is so proud of. Just to add to the sads, I was listening to heaps of Springsteen and loved the melancholic guitar work in his early albums.

"For the video, we really just wanted to be creative. The band and some close friends to doused me head to toe in paint for the most chaotic two minutes ever. Overall it was a huge success and looks awesome, but I was washing bright orange paint out of my right ear for a week."