Gracefully threaded throughout the album, the optimism of Fuzzybrain is both hard-won and palpably sincere. Originally from Aledo, Texas—a Fort Worth suburb he refers to as a “small, football-crazed town”—Struble felt irrevocably out of place for most of his adolescence, eventually turning to music as a purposeful escape from his surroundings. Working completely on his own with a miniscule collection of gear—his guitar, computer, some secondhand keyboards snagged at Goodwill—Struble created Fuzzybrain by transforming his private outpouring into a batch of songs often grandiose in scale. True to the intensely personal nature of Fuzzybrain, Struble kept the project entirely to himself all throughout its creation. “Usually artists will have demos they’ll bounce off other people to get some feedback, but nobody except for my parents down the hall really heard much of the album until I put it out,” he says. Soon after self-releasing Fuzzybrain in fall 2018, Struble began earning widespread attention for the album, drawing an online following struck by the pure positivity of Dayglow’s output.
As his audience widens to include fans around the world, Dayglow pushes forward with a mission of making music that strengthens hope, promotes peace, and—in an especially important turn for Struble—fosters a powerful sense of community. “When people come to the shows, I obviously want them to have fun and feel good—but more than that, I want them to make friends,” he says. “The impact of a show only lasts so long, but if you end up making a friend there, that impact can last quite a long time. I’d really love for people to share this whole experience in a way that goes beyond just the music.”
Praise for Dayglow:
"...though Dayglow's recent success has led Struble to put his college education on hold for now, we have a feeling that pretty soon he's going to graduate into full rock star status while continuing to shed his brand of positivity one riff, hook and smile at a time." - NPR
“At 19, Sloan Struble aka Dayglow has proven himself to be somewhat of an indie-pop wunderkind. Having been working the DIY way for over a decade, he makes summer-ready and surreal slacker tunes (and mad music videos) about love, loss and silliness of teenage life. This is bedroom pop meant for the world stage.” - NME
"Hailing from Fort Worth, Texas, singer-songwriter Sloan Struble, aka Dayglow, encapsulates all the best of indie pop and indie rock in the 21st century - the charming lyricism of Grizzly Bear, the catchy synth elements of MGMT and Phoenix, and the playful melodies of Vampire Weekend and Cayucas." - Earmilk
"Dayglow is on the cusp of something big" - Austin360
"If you were to put a soundtrack to the strung-together words of sun-soaked eternal joy, it would be Dayglow...Dayglow is the antidote for dark pop, brimming with infectious bliss and hope." - Ones To Watch
No comments:
Post a Comment