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music-addiction-disorder · 1 year

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This is some damn great power pop with old school influences on its sleeve (Byrds, 70s power pop, Dwight Twilley) but contemporary enough to identify itself as non-wholly-retro. Methinks it's also influenced by 'emo' and what passes nowadays for "punk" but (mostly) without the almost insulting (to this old school punker) saccharine teen stupidity of both genres. Good job, junior. I dig it. If you cut it on vinyl, I'm there.

I Know Nothing At All 02:33 lyrics

2. Every Little Thing 02:17 lyrics

3. ESTAO 04:05 lyrics

4. Tucked Inside My Head 02:57 lyrics

5. Submarine 01:47 lyrics

6. Peel 02:12 lyrics

7. Mental Math 01:25 lyrics

8. Always In Between 02:12 lyrics

One amp. One mic. One person. Countless hooks. That’s the Dazy formula. Since first releasing the single Bright Lights b/w Accelerate in August 2020, Dazy mastermind James Goodson has been writing, recording, and releasing new music like a man on the hunt to find the best pop hook, and he won’t stop until he’s put all of them into his songs. With the release of MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs, Convulse Records collects all of the singles and EPs from Dazy’s first year onto one tape. And because Goodson can’t stop making things, there’s five brand-new songs up top to prove there’s plenty more in the tank.

Showcasing a unique set of influences, Dazy’s sound marries thumping drum machine beats, blasts of feeding back guitar, and sugar-sweet hooks into something that sounds like Godflesh covering Oasis—or maybe the other way around. With lean songwriting that recalls Teenage Fanclub but a home-recorded production style better suited for Big Black, Goodson builds a constant churn of abrasive, consuming noise and then makes it catchier than anyone else would ever dare to.

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Out Of Body - Lame-O Records (2022)

OTHERBODY ‎- Lame-O Records (2023)

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MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD ‎- Convulse Records (2021)

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Dazy & Militarie Gun "Pressure Cooler"

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sinceileftyoublog · 1 year

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Dazy Live Show Review: 1/18, Sleeping Village, Chicago

BY JORDAN MAINZER

The first time I heard Dazy, I went in cold. My wife sent me a link to a YouTube video of a song she was digging, “Invisible Thing” from MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs. I, too, was instantly hooked, from the opening blast of drum machine and the atonal My Bloody Valentine-esque guitars to the hooks and the singer’s voice, which toed the perfect line between choral and bratty. Listening more and doing some digging, I was pleasantly surprised to find Dazy was the bedroom rock project of James Goodson, the same publicist I’d worked with when covering bands such as Drug Church and Tony Molina. Like the latter, Goodson makes brief, punchy, catchy as hell pop rock, but I’d posit his output is even more varied. The standouts on MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD diverge a ton in tempo and mood, like the candied shuffle of “Crowded Mind (Lemon Lime)” versus the fuzzed-out vigor of “See The Bottom”. In March last year, Dazy collaborated with L.A. hardcore punk band Militarie Gun on his biggest shout-along yet, the anthemic earworm “Pressure Cooker”. In October, he followed it up with his proper debut album, OUTOFBODY (Lame-O), which emphasized what Dazy does best while adding elements of both Evan Dando’s sweetness and Britpop melancholia.

Wednesday at Sleeping Village was Dazy’s Chicago debut, and hearing the songs in a full band setting felt familiar and new at the same time. Dazy’s trademark concision was in full-form; slated to go on at 11:00 P.M., the band took the stage about 12 minutes early, in the middle of their 8th song 5 minutes past their original start time. But some of their most beloved songs got that extra bit of muscle and deliberation, like the comparatively slow drums of “Deadline” and the extra meat of the snares and cymbals on “Crowded Mind (Lemon Lime)”. As a frontman, Goodson proves just as effective as he is a one-man-band mastermind. I couldn’t help but notice that he sung Militarie Gun vocalist Ian Shelton’s verse on “Pressure Cooker” slightly differently than he did his own, cleverly subverting, then matching your initial expectations. The band finished a clean sub-30 minute set with the very song that introduced me to Dazy, speedy snares replacing the drum machine intro, the guitars taking on the full psychedelic wah wahs that you might think they have from Dazy’s work with Dinosaur Jr. engineer Justin Pizzoferrato. Dazy might continue to grow and expand their sound here and there, but their roots are firm.

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yellowsnow77 · 2 years

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Dazy - OUTOFBODY

Dazy – OUTOFBODY

Dazy es el proyecto de James Goodson, un publicista independiente de Virginia que durante la pandemia se entretuvo componiendo y grabando canciones como si no hubiera un mañana. Y todo desde su propia casa, claro. Muchas de ellas aparecieron en ‘MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs’, una especie de recopilación en la que ya se veían por donde iban a ir los tiros en su carrera. Unos tiros que…

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sinceileftyoublog · 5 months

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Dazy, Lifeguard, & Illusion Of Choice Live Show Review: 12/4, Cobra Lounge, Chicago

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BY JORDAN MAINZER

I'm not sure what Dazy does at a faster pace these days: tour or release tunes. Since we caught his Chicago debut of full-band arrangements in January, he's come to town twice more, including last night's stop at the Cobra Lounge. And mere months after releasing OUTOFBODY in 2022, in March, James Goodson shared songs recorded around the same time in the form of the cheekily titled OTHERBODY. The record continued the vibe of Dazy's debut LP, from the "Revolution" crunch of opener "I Know Nothing At All" to the sugary noise of "Every Little Thing". Just two months ago, Dazy shared the Ryan Hemsworth-assisted "Forced Perspective" (Lame-O), a collection of rounded country pop guitar riffs, a chirpy electric beat, and an uneasy, yet anthemic chorus.

Dazy's James Goodson

Always writing and always playing, it must be hard for Goodson to pick a setlist on a nightly basis. A year-plus removed from OUTOFBODY and over two years from MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs, Dazy's set at the Cobra Lounge felt like as close as you can get right now to "the hits," the crowd pumping fists, banging heads, and singing along to favorites "On My Way", "Split", "The Perfect Crime", "Pressure Cooker", and "Invisible Thing". I was just as happy, though, to see Goodson lean into the sweet, softer side of Dazy. "Forced Perspective", with its curly bass and guitar scrapes, was a highlight, as was "Every Little Thing", "could be a country hit" "Rollercoaster Ride", and set closer "Out of Body". "Is that my brain hanging by a thread?" Goodson sang on "Out of Body"; as much as he may have been disassociating at the time of writing the song, his everyday anxieties have certainly provided ample creative fodder for some of the best power pop of the past half-decade.

Lifeguard

Chicago's Lifeguard opened for Dazy, which was perhaps anybody's final chance to see the band in an opening slot at a venue as small as Cobra Lounge. The hyped three-piece, formed in 2019, signed to Matador Records earlier this year. Let's get it out of the way: Yes, drummer Isaac Lowenstein's sister Penelope is in labelmates Horsegirl, and bassist Asher Case's father is Brian Case of FACS (and formerly of Disappears, The Ponys, and 90 Day Men). Thankfully, Lifeguard is a beast of its own, combining chanted vocals with clanging, metallic guitars and dexterous, repetitively pummeling drums. Earlier this year, Matador re-released the band's 2022 EP Crowd Can Talk along with a collection of new material, Dressed in Trenches. Live, Lifeguard showed what they're truly about: off-kilter time signatures, uneven song sections, moments where you can't tell when they're warming up or about to switch gears. When they played "17-18 Lovesong", Case's rounded bass and monotone vocals wiggled around Kai Slater's stabbing guitars and falsetto off-beat harmonies, though the band never let you get too comfortably hypnotized in a groove. They finished with their newest song, the uncharacteristically poppy and straightforward (yet very welcome!) "In The City". You never know what's next with Lifeguard, and they're just getting started.

Illusion of Choice

Starting off the night was another local institution, four-piece shoegaze indie rock band Illusion of Choice. Most of their songs revolved around the atmospheres you'd expect with a genre descriptor like that: Alex Rackow's distorted guitars, Judith Pelkowski's heavy bass lines, Alex Boyajian's mammoth snares, and Tyler Tumminaro's sharp, nasal vocal delivery. Occasionally, they added elements of jangly surf, but for the most part, they chugged along deliberately, like on "Circling the Drain" and standout set closer "Bad Boy". Overall, Illusion of Choice offered an appropriate middle ground between Dazy's hooks and Lifeguard's deconstructed songs.

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