Graham Reid | | <1 min read
With a band name designed to induce a knowing smile, guitar-driven pop which is breezily conventional (verse/chorus) and an album which collects together previous singles and frontloads them, this one gets a tailwind straight away.
The band of three brothers – Jayden, Johnny and Jeese Paul with their mate Rick Everard – have a keen pop sensibility (Go With the Flow) and, frankly, seem to know exactly what laidback young Kiwis want to hear over summer. Which is pretty much “go with the flow”.
But that glistening track – not one of the singles – also has a melancholy about it (“though I'm changing, I might be getting old”) which shows a maturity in the writing, also evident in For Your Leisure late in day.
And everywhere on this album the sibling harmonies elevate these economic and individually distinctive songs.
Roadie right at the end sounds like an afterthought but otherwise local pop is in good hands with Daily J who straddled guitar-framed songs and electropop.
And they offer a welcome change from the summer tsunami of lyrically vacuous, soulful and slightly jazzy reggae.
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You can hear this album at Spotify here. The album is available on vinyl pre-order here
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DAILY J ALBUM LAUNCHES
San Fran, Wellington, Friday, March 21; Powerstation, Auckland, Friday, March 28.
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