After eight years hiding his voice from everyone he knew, Travis Moseley wasn’t sure the world would ever take him seriously as a singer. But a chance sighting on a Hollywood electrical box helped the Austin heroes land on the title for their most defiant debut yet, one Travis calls “a flag I planted in the ground…”

Words by Tanita Hingerty | Aug 26, 2026

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Colorblind frontman Travis Moseley spent eight years working a day job in Texas, singing only when nobody was around to hear it. Now he’s fronting one of Austin’s most promising exports, dropping a debut album titled after words he spotted scrawled on an electrical box, and gearing up to take over a Dallas coffee shop for a very on-brand pop-up event. Ahead of Who Sold You This Truth ++ Was It Yours To Hold landing on 28th August, we caught up with Travis to talk imposter syndrome, manifesting, and why letting go of other people’s opinions was the only way forward.

Exciting time for Colorblind! Your debut album “Who Sold You This Truth ++ Was It Yours To Hold” is out on the 28th of August. What’s the meaning behind the album’s name and the inspiration behind the songs?

The album name kind of came way after the album was done, I was going back on the songs and listening to them and it felt like there was this accidental connecting thread that I was at war with myself and I had all these pre conceived notions about myself and I was moving through the world with those pre conceived notions, there’s a lot of like just questioning those things.

It’s really weird because I was walking around my apartment in Hollywood and “Who Sold You This Truth” was written on an electrical box, I walked past it like five or six times and I finally wrote it down it just felt very much like it was handed to me from the universe, because it caught my attention every single time, it was like “hey look at this and then I added on “was it yours to hold”, and pretty much the title asks the question “why do we allow other people’s opinions to affect us so heavily and why do we feel this weird responsibility to hold onto those things?” It kind of has a second meaning as well because I worked in Texas at this barbeque restaurant for a long time- eight years or something like that and the sixth year of me working there is when I decided to be in a band and it kind of blindsided a lot of people who worked there, they were like ‘that’s not your personality to do this’ and ‘this is weird’, ‘this is kind of embarrassing’, ‘don’t do this’, ‘this is kind of lame’ and I really let that affect me going forward into my music career and obviously it gave me a lot of imposter syndrome and this album title is our debut album title as well and it’s kind of like a flag I planted in the ground to say I’ve got to let those things go and decide who I want to be and not let other people affect that.

I love that. Super inspirational. Meant to be. As a band, you’ve such a unique sound, and you’ve such unique vocals as well. What is the creative process behind the music, and how did you find and evolve your unique sound?

I think it really just comes from time with your voice. I mean, I obviously have my influences and the art that I love, but the more time you have on the mic and in the studio, you kind of start figuring out what your thing is and what you do differently. It’s something that just appears. I don’t know if there was necessarily a specificprocess I had or something to figure that out. It’s just something that you can only try to feel and move towards the things that feel compelling. Before you know it, you have your own little thing.

You mentioned after six years, joining a band, and I’m wondering whether there was a specific moment that called to you, that you realised you wanted to be in a band or something you always knew?

I never ever thought that I would ever be in a band, but my Dad was in a band, and we always had instruments around the house. He had a drum kit set up at all times; there was always at least an acoustic guitar in one room. We had amps and electric guitars; it was never something he forced me to do or anything, but my brother, who’s older than me, his biggest passion has always been drumming since he’s been a very good drummer ever since he was a kid and when he was twenty five he just like decided to pick it up again and start playing in local bands in Austin, Texas where the bands from, he started playing in this local hardcore band called Morningside and I would go watch his shows and then he joined the band that we’re in now, we just had a different singer and they parted ways with that singer and I just asked my brother could I try out but nobody knew that I sang and did that and it was very kind of a secretive and weird thing that I didn’t want to show and felt like so vulnerable to show people but I would just pick up the guitar and sing at my house alone and I was completely okay with nobody ever knowing, that I did that. I got so much pleasure out of singing by myself that I didn’t really care to sing in a band, but whenever Tyler’s band parted with their singer, it all felt like I was supposed to go ahead and make that step in my life and I’m so glad that I did because I literally have no idea what I’d be doing if I didn’t do that.

I’m sure a lot of people are really glad that you did that! Talk to us about the album’s pop-up event; it sounds like such a cool experience for the fans!

So the pop- up event is going to be so cool. It was kind of like a last-minute thing, but we had talked about doing a coffee, drinks with the album for a while, like ever since the start, we’ve a song “Neversleep” for that song we were like that would be so funny and like we should have chose a coffee shop to do a collab with for the songs releases and have a drink on their menu called “the never sleep” and we can use that as a way to promote the song, we came up with that idea kind of a little too late before it was released so when the album got released we were like wait why don’t we take over a coffee shop and do a pop up and it would be so cool if we could do an acoustic set and have a whole menu of coffee drinks that were all named after the album and to get like cool with them and make different things with the coffee to resemble the album artwork and the last time that we played Dallas, Texas we had like this incredible show and an incredible amount of people came out for us, it was mind blowing. Dallas is just a few hours from Austin, where the bands from, and we’ve grown up playing shows in Dallas ever since we were a local band, and that city’s always shown up for us so many times. So we were like, “Okay, let’s do it in Dallas and then we found out, perfectly that a coffee shop had just opened in Dallas called “Coffemos,” and it’s an emo coffee shop that has a stage and a PA, so we were like “okay its happening”, so we got on the phone call to the people and they were like we’ve only just opened up a few months ago but yeah they were like, “Absolutely, lets go” and so we’re going to do it, and we’re really excited about it.

Again… It’s like meant to be. Dallas is such a great city! I hear there’s even going to be temporary tattoos at the event too!

Oh yeah, Temporary tattoos of the album artwork, yeah, its going to be a lot of fun.

Do you have a favourite song from the new album and is there one you’re most looking forward to performing live?

There’s a few favourites, I think “Neversleep” is a favourite, “God Complex”, is a favourite, “Cynical”, is a song I really love, “The Countdown” is a song that I really love, there’s also a song on the album, “Incomplete” which is a really cool song and I think playing that song live is going to be a lot of fun and already right now playing “Neversleep” live is so fun because everybody’s really into it and “God Complex”. There’s a ton of favourites on the album.

Talk to us about the headline tour…

So we just did the headline tour; we just finished it. It was called “The Hounds of the Underground tour, and it was a three-way co-headliner with us, If Not For Me and Windwaker from Australia, and that tour was incredible; that was incredibly fun. We were all just like, we got so lucky because the whole band has always had a history of getting really lucky with people that we tour with, but this tour in particular was so much fun, and every single person on the tour was a blast; we camped together on the days off, and hung around in cities together. We hung out; we were just this fun group, and the shows were doing better than we thought they were going to do. It was all so much fun, and it was great.

Upcoming tour plans….

October, we are touring with Catch Your Breath, TX2 and Arankai, that tour starts on oct 16th and ends on dec 4th or something so it’s like thirty-five shows, it’s going to be the longest tour we’ve ever done but we’re so excited for it, especially because Catch Your Breath and Colorblind both came out of the same local scene in Austin, we played shows together as local bands and now we get to go on this tour of America together and we’re just like “What the hell?”, this is so cool. We’re really excited to get to do that.

So sick! Do you have a dream venue or place you’d like to play?

I do have a dream venue, there’s this venue in Austin that’s called “ACL live” and it would be a really big dream of mine to play that room, because I grew up skateboarding so a way for me to process writing songs and listen to stuff that inspires me I’d always just put in headphones and I used to skateboard around downtown Austin at night and I would get really inspired by listening to bands like Circa Survive, Hail the sun and Pvris and I would always skate past that venue specifically and it’s juts somewhere I feel would be really cool to play in. There’s a hometown area that I’d love to play too.

Manifesting while skateboarding by! That sounds really cool. Can you talk about an experiment or risk you took musically that you feel worked out for the best?

Yeah, I think so. So I have this, like, when I started being a singer, I knew that the type of music I wanted to do, I needed to learn harsh vocals. I have this really low scream I put in some of the songs, but I was always afraid to put them in songs because I wasn’t sure if I could tour on it. I didn’t know if I was doing it correctly enough. I was scared that I was going to damage my voice or something, but I learned a little bit more about the correct way to do things and went ahead and put that scream on a couple of the songs on the album, and people are like, “Who the hell was that? Was that you?” and then we’ll do it live and everybody just eats it up that’s a fun thing and it was a risk that I took and I was a little afraid I would be able to do that consistently live but I’ve figured out how to take care of myself and my voice but that’s definitely the risk for me.

Fab! That’s really cool. Your lyrics are super deep, meaningful and relatable. What do you feel is the most important thing for you to express and put into the world through your music?

I feel like the times that I’ve felt all that we really want to do is make people feel less alone in their problems and it’s really weird how if you sing about something specific in your life, somebody, somehow relates it to their own way and some things have helped me a lot by just knowing that somebody else feels what I feel too and whenever you’re going through a tough time or having a lot of anxiety, knowing that you’re not alone in that has been a really powerful thing for me and I think that that’s all we could ever ask for, is just to make people feel less alone in a time of being scared or anxious. We had a song called “Ghost”, but it’s not on this album, but it’s about grieving the death of somebody you love, and so many people have such an attachment to that song because it helped them grieve the death of somebody they loved and we had so many people talk to us about that, and we weren’t really expecting that, but that’s when we had that moment as a band like “Oh, that’s what’s important… is to talk about real stuff that’s important and be there for people and I think that’s why everybody goes to music.

I think it’s amazing that you can represent that for people, and really powerful. Who would your dream musical collaboration be with?

I’m sure there are plenty of people… but for this album, there’s this artist; her name’s Donna Missal, and she has this insane voice, and I was like, that would be such a cool girl to get on the album. I think she’s so cool. I also really love The Neighbourhood. I love Jesse Rutherford; that would be cool to do. When we made “Lost in Translation”, we were like, wouldn’t it be so sick to get Jesse on a verse on this song? There’s a million that I’m forgetting, but those are my two for right now.

Good choices! How did you come up with the album’s artwork? It’s really striking; can you talk to us about it?

Immediately when we first started writing the band’s music for this album, we had a TV, and we were playing these weird ‘edits’ (video clips), and it’s called “Liminal Dreamcore” and “Liminal Horror”, and there are some scenes of like medieval… It’s so hard to explain, but it’s just this weird thing that gives you these weird,eerie feelings, and we were playing that while we were writing the songs, and that definitely found its way into the songs, we feel like, but immediately when we made the album I was like, “Horses! Castles!” Why? I don’t know, but it was coming into my head and there’s this artist that we came across a lot and we worked with before- his Instagram handle is @nothinglastsforever and he has this kind of like signature eye in some of his pieces of artwork and Colorblind has always, from the start of our band there’s always been eyes in our artwork and so we kind of just meshed the two together and he put together on the album artwork there’s this eye with the burst of colour around it and a castle in there and kind of created this sort of space, we just told Marcello (the artist) what we were vibing with what was happening and he just brought it to life in the coolest way. We were like, “Yes! That’s it! You did it! That’s amazing!” He was awesome.

That’s really cool. I kind of want to look those videos up, but I’m also kind of scared!

Yeah, it is weird…

So you’ve been a band since 2017. Do you want to talk about some band lore and how you evolved into this current era?

I mean I guess all I can talk about, is like so I came into the band in 2018 the band had started in 2017 with the original singer and when I came into the band, I’d never fully written a song before and I immediately just had to get on a plane to Los Angeles and go to the studio and work with a producer called Erik Ron who has made albums that changed my life and I had to go write my first songs ever with this producer that I looked up to so much and we were supposed to go make three or four songs but we only came out with one because I had this breakdown there I had this moment where I was like “What am I doing here? This is insane. This is too much and too fast.” Then shortly after that, we got offered to be the local opener for Escape the Fate in Austin and it was my first show that I ever played and we opened for Escape the Fate! It was my first show that I ever played, and I was so scared I didn’t say a word to the crowd. I was terrified

…I was absolutely terrified. I just remember the first years of me being in a band before we’d ever toured playing live shows was the most intensely scary thing I ever did, and now it’s my favourite part of being in a band, but if you’re scared about playing shows and you’re scared about doing all that stuff, that’s normal…I’ve messed up from doing that plenty of times; you’ve got to just keep doing it, and I promise you’re going to get better. It was so terrifying to start being in this band. It was so scary, but I’m so glad I stuck with it and touring really changed everything for me. It got me so comfortable on stage, and now it’s my favourite thing to do.

The pressure! I love how you turned it around, though.

Haha. Yeah, there was a lot of pressure!

Were there any touring essentials or anything that made you feel more comfortable, that helped you on the road, and helped you overcome that?

There’s something about the repetition that you get from touring that is just amazing when you’re on the road, and you wake up in another city, and then you’ve got to get to the venue in the next state by a certain time, and you got to make sure all your gears working, and there’s a lot of stressful things that are around like oh I hope the van doesn’t break down, I hope we don’t get a flat tire, I hope we’re not late, I hope our gear works so by the time you’re at the venue and you’re playing the show its actually like a stress relief versus when you’re in a local band and like it’s so different you’re like “Oh my god, we booked a show and it’s three weeks from now you wake up every morning and you’re like ….the show…the show…the show… “and you start getting really nervous about this one thing but when you’re on tour you’re like playing a show every single day of the week and you’re more stressed out about getting there then about playing the show so whenever you do play the show its more of like a celebration of oh we did it and that changed a lot for me and learning to take care of my voice and all those things gave me a lot of confidence but seriously the repetition of touring is just like a show isn’t this thing that you look forward to that’s in a few weeks from now it’s what you do every single day for a month, so it just turns into a thing that you do instead of a big thing you’ve got to do.

What have the highlights of being in Colorblind been for you so far?

This is a huge highlight… I mean, releasing this album and doing this we’re all really excited about this release party we’re doing. I think that’s going to be a really special thing. Some highlights of my career are getting to play some shows in front of my Dad’s band. You know, they all played shows together, and now they’re going to our shows together, and they watched me suck, and now they’re watching us get better, and that’s a big highlight getting to do that. Another highlight was getting to play shows in the UK and Europe. We did some shows there with Caskets, and that was a big highlight. There’s a lot; we feel like we’re really living in it right now, and we’re stoked.

Do you’ve plans to come back to the UK and Ireland?

I would love to; we want to so bad, but we haven’t gotten the offer yet. It’s like going to another country to play other shows; it’s so expensive. To make it work, it has to go very smoothly. We learned some lessons the first time we went to the UK. We lost some money, but that’s okay; we just got to get the right tour with the right things figured out. We hope we’re there in 2027. We have nothing booked yet, and no conversations are being had about it, but if we could be there next year…if we could, we’d be there in a heartbeat if it all worked out. We’re trying our best to get back over there, and it’s a big goal of ours to keep going back and playing shows there. We love Europe and the UK, and we want to see Ireland so bad; we’d love to play there.

What does the future hold for Colorblind?

We have a really cool tour coming up in the Spring that I’m not allowed to say, but we booked a really cool tour with an awesome band and they’ll be the biggest shows that we’ve ever played so were so excited for that but other then that its just going to be doing everything we can to make this album release as impactful as possible and have a lot of fun on this tour with Catch Your Breath and trying to be the best band that we can be. We hope everybody enjoys and loves the new album, and we hope to see everybody at a show on our upcoming tour with Catch Your Breath. Yeah, we’re excited.

Who Sold You This Truth ++ Was It Yours To Hold is out August 28 via Solid State Records.