Austin’s proun Share Confessional New Single “Coloring Pages” Ahead of Debut Album Maybe Luck

With their debut album Maybe Luck due on 6/26 via Good English, Austin’s proun have followed the lead of last month’s “Miracles” with another sharp, emotionally loaded single. “Coloring Pages” leans further into the band’s emo-folk instincts, but it also sounds like a point where the project’s collaborative side comes into clearer focus.

Leader Jamie Weed describes the song as one of the record’s most collaborative moments, and the origin story bears that out. It started with an instrumental demo from bassist Dante Zatto, which mapped out what became the drum, bass, and guitar parts. Weed says the sketch pushed the band toward something a little more direct, with guitar and bass working in tighter conversation and the drums turning more angular than on much of their other material.

That framework became the backdrop for some deeply personal writing. Weed used the demo as a base to write about coming out as trans to their mother, and the complicated emotional residue of that day. Weed also points to fragments that feel almost like a spill of thought, surrounded by memories of childhood before gender entered the picture in the ways it later would.

The result is the kind of track that makes proun’s lane feel clearer without flattening it. The vocals stay mumbly and intimate, the riffs sparkle, and the guitar solo lands with the kind of catharsis that still carries a bit of ache. It’s an emo song in the old sense of the term, built from feeling first and arrangement second, and it extends the promise of Maybe Luck a little further.

“Coloring Pages” is one of the most collaborative parts of the record, Jamie Weed says. The song grew out of a demo from Dante Zatto and became a canvas for writing about coming out as trans to my mom and the feelings from that day.