Unsigned Spotlight - Colours

Listen to the band’s track “Camera Click” while you read…

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Message from the band:

We’re an indie/rock/pop two-piece by the name of Colours hail­ing out of Dallas, TX. We’re in love with music. There’s noth­ing we love more than cre­at­ing some­thing between the two of us, then tak­ing the ideas from our heads and mak­ing them come out through two speakers.

We grew up lis­ten­ing tobands like The Beatles, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, etc. When we started to become more inter­ested in music and play­ing, bands we looked up to (to name a few) were Death Cab For Cutie, The Get Up Kids, OK Go. We met in mid­dle school and in high school always played music but in sep­a­rate bands. We didn’t start col­lab­o­rat­ing together seri­ously until after our high school years, where we finally went through enough learn­ing expe­ri­ences with sev­eral bands to know what it is we really wanted.

We love writ­ing music. We often come up with ideas sep­a­rately then come together to col­lab­o­rate on them. We both write our songs on gui­tar first and once we have some­thing to work with, we go into our prac­tice room and and write the parts/arrangements for the other instru­ments (drums, piano/keys, etc). This process car­ries on into our stu­dio ses­sions and we play all the instru­ments. We tried hav­ing other peo­ple involved but we real­ized that it com­pli­cated things more and no one cared about the music as much as we did. We’ve been friends for a long time and its much eas­ier to com­mu­ni­cate our ideas and thoughts with each other.

We’re always writ­ing. With this EP out we’re already mak­ing plans for the next record and get­ting a solid line up of tracks to choose from before we hit the stu­dio. We’ve done the 9-5/corporate world before and we chose doing what made us happy over a big pay­check. Your qual­ity of life is much bet­ter when you’re actu­ally pur­su­ing some­thing you’re pas­sion­ate about. It’s bet­ter to be a dreamer than to not dream at all. We’re really excited about our first EP and we’re really want­ing to push it as much as we can and get on the road. We’re a new band and at this point we really want to see what kind of reac­tion our music gets. We’re very opti­mistic and plan for this record to give us an excuse to get out on the road and work even harder.

- Phillip & Rico

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Review Rinse Repeat says:

With music as col­or­ful as their name, Texan duo Colours look set to be the most ambi­tious project to bloom from the south­ern state since PlayRadioPlay!. With mel­low indie-pop melodies, the band don’t stray too far from the norm while attempt­ing to estab­lish their own sound. With poten­tial present, Colours look likely to brush the scene’s palette.

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