The Day are the dream-pop duo of Laura Loeters of the Netherlands, and Hamburg, Germany’s Gregor Sonnenberg, who first met as students many years ago. Together the European pair take the lo-fi route on this debut album of humble,\u00a0 melancholic sounds that range from sparse to anthemic and occasionally even ambient. <\/p>\n
The album leads with the crisp percussion and warm guitars of \u201cIsland,\u201d while Loeters’ sweet vocals sweep in for an ultra-dreamy tune with layered vocals. \u201cWhere The Wild Things Are\u201d follows with a darker angle, with plenty of intricate musicianship while \u201cGrow\u201d brings strong New Wave ideas with upbeat and playful synth. <\/p>\n
Near the middle we are treated to some faint post-punk influences on the cautious \u201cYet To Come,\u201d which move fluidly into the restrained and timeless melodica of \u201cExit Sign.\u201d \u201cWe Killed Our Hearts\u201d might be the most pop-friendly tune on the album, and could surely bring the two mainstream success with its infectious quality. <\/p>\n
Some of the best tunes reside near the end, especially the seven minutes of the soaring, atmospheric, post-rock-influenced \u201cBerlin\u201d that flows with cascading beauty, ebbs of twinkling moments and a general feeling of ’80s nostalgia and is easily worth the price of admission by itself. The lush, charming and wispy \u201cIlluminate\u201d and the calming, meditative instrumental \u201cFolded Paper Planes\u201d end the listen on a strong note, bringing even more variety to a very eclectic experience. <\/p>\n
Somewhere between indie-pop, shoegaze and jangly pop, Midnight Parade <\/i>is a stunning affair with meticulous textures, top notch songwriting and a memorableness that sits well alongside Explosions In The Sky, My Bloody Valentine or even Beach House. A band with a luminous future ahead of them, The Day have two EPs available, too, and if this album is any indication, those will also warrant repeated listens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10335],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45572","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-day","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45572"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45572"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}