Semi-Automatic is the sixth song on the album Vessel. It was recorded in Los Angeles and was produced by Greg Wells.
Commentary[]
Following the release of Vessel, Spotify shared an exclusive commentary by Tyler Joseph for each track on the standard edition.
This next song, Semi-Automatic, is one of the newer ones on the album, and we haven’t played it live very much, which—it’s hard for me to get really attached to a song without playing it live a bunch. Most of the other songs on the album, we’ve kind of—we’ve formed and kind of developed what that looks like live, and that’s truly who we are. We’re a live band and we love playing live music. So Semi-Automatic is one of those kind of challenging songs where we’re looking forward to trying to make that a part of our repertoire. And, lyrically, it’s a lot of the same themes as the rest of the album. It’s very introspective, and I know I talk about the night time a lot. I feel like I listen to a lot of pop music today that talks about the night in a completely different way than I talk about the night. There’s a lot of writers that talk about the night as in like it’s [an] awesome time, that everyone’s partying or whatever, and usually night time for me is like the worst—that’s when everything comes out for me. That’s when I realize that I don’t really understand why I’m here or what I’m doing and it’s when the doubts happen. So a lot of these songs are kind of showing you the things that I’m thinking at night. So it’s—Semi-Automatic is definitely one of those songs.
Official Audio[]
Lyrics[]
Night falls, with gravity |
Credits[]
| Writers and producers | Tyler Joseph and Greg Wells |
| Recorded by | Ian MacGregor at Rocket Carousel Studio Los Angeles, CA 
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| Programming | Tyler Joseph and Greg Wells |
| Piano, keys and ukulele | Tyler Joseph |
| Drums and auxiliary percussion | Josh Dun |
| Vocals | Tyler Joseph |
| Additional synths and keyboards | Greg Wells |
| Mixed by | Greg Wells at Rocket Carousel Studio Los Angeles, CA
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| Mastered by | Howie Weinberg & Dan Gerbarg at Howie Weinberg Mastering, Los Angeles, CA
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| Twenty One Pilots | ||
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| About | Twenty One Pilots • Tyler Joseph • Josh Dun | |
| Studio albums | Twenty One Pilots • Regional at Best • Vessel • Blurryface • Trench • Scaled and Icy • Clancy | |
| EPs | Three Songs • Migraine (EP) • Holding On to You (EP) • Quiet Is Violent • The LC LP • Double Sided • TOPxMM • Trench 10" Triplet EP • Location Sessions | |
| Live albums | Blurryface Live • Scaled and Icy (Livestream Version) • MTV Unplugged | |
| Singles | Holding On to You • Guns for Hands • Lovely • House of Gold • Fake You Out • Car Radio • Fairly Local • Tear in My Heart • Stressed Out • Lane Boy • Ride • Heathens • Heavydirtysoul • Cancer • Jumpsuit • Nico and the Niners • Levitate • My Blood • Chlorine • The Hype • Level of Concern • Christmas Saves the Year • Shy Away • Choker • Saturday • The Outside • Overcompensate • Next Semester | |
| Tours | Mostly November Tour • Blurryface World Tour • Emotional Roadshow World Tour • Tour De Columbus • The Bandito Tour • Takeover Tour • The Icy Tour • The Clancy World Tour | |