PAINT ME IN COLOUR – PICK ME UP – SINGLE REVIEW

“Pick Me Up’ is a personal mantra, embracing an indomitable spirit that refuses to be crushed”

This track starts off with a quiet count off on the drums – just a snare and kick for one bar before you’re hit in the face with a big crash cymbal and everything coming in…

But it doesn’t hurt.

Such is the nature of the sound of Paint Me In Colour.

This track combines ballsy vocals from Liv, she’s vulnerable in parts but also brings soulful and rock sensibilities to this.

The arrangement on this track is brilliant it goes through stages, like I said at the beginning it starts off really quietly then drops into the prowling rhythm – one thing to note is the electro toms – very 80s!

The chorus comes in at :50, and the fills to bring you back to the second verse and shows you what’s coming up…. It gets all moody with the lead guitar playing a real strong melody to count Liv’s performance… and even adding stops and starts.

This is genius.

But then this is a Liverpudlian band.

Oh the middle 8 – brilliant idea, it feels like a different song because of the drop in temperature but what’s even more disconcerting is that at this point Liv is singing in a different key to the rest of the track – in your brain you think this isn’t supposed to work and that takes a lot to do that, but it actually does!

My brain would have made me switch it off at that point but I didn’t. So that shows it’s a good thing.

Well done!

“People say we’re different, but we just try to keep it exciting”, says Paint Me In Colour. The Liverpool-based four-piece, whose sound has evolved from classic indie numbers to genre-hopping anthems, first met at college and through mutual friends, the chemistry sparked from the first rehearsal.

Their previous single ‘Pity Me’ was reminiscent of nostalgic 90’s guitar hooks, and larger-than-life drum sounds and boasts being back by BBC Radio 1, BBC Introducing and Gigwise. Their latest track ‘Pick Me Up’ however, is packed with anthemic vocals, and throaty guitar lines and takes inspiration from alternative artists The Neighbourhood and Paramore, who the band counts as recent influences on their sound, as well as indie icons, Nothing but Thieves.

“Amidst 2pm wake-up calls and questionable highs, ‘Pick Me Up’ is a personal mantra, embracing an indomitable spirit that refuses to be crushed” front-woman Liv Springer explains “We’ve landed on a sound that we’re truly proud of”.

Listen to ‘Pick Me Up’ here now.