So I'd rather wake up at daybreak, rather than study until daybreak. It's just better that way. It really is. Therefore I should be studying right now in order to sleep at a normal hour. However, I'm searching for music through youtube, again. Although this one's pretty good. If you haven't guessed the name yet, here it is, Daybreak.
Now this is the kind of song I'd listen to at daybreak after waking up from a comfortable night's sleep. A morning song. A song to ensure a refreshing day. On that note, here's another feel-good song from Daybreak. It's called, It's great. (although the definition can shift based on context.)
How can so much positive emotion exist in one song? Beats me, but ask these guys, since they seem to be hoarding all the galaxy's optimism.
Bands like these, are simply direly needed in this morbid world that keeps on cutting out items from the list of postivity, and offers only a bleak vision of the future. Daybreak's music however, is more than enough to bring that spectacular daybreak to anyone's night.
Daybreak formed in 2005, and debuted with their first album in 2007. Since then, they've had quite a number of album releases. Quite prolific for a band that hasn't been around for that long.
One aspect of this band I really enjoy is their utilization of instrumentals. Since explaining won't suffice. Just listen, to this next song.
As you can hear, there is a variety of instruments that make up the band's sound. The wind section especially gives off that live-music-at-a-jazz-bar feeling. However, I'd say their sound is more towards the alternative rock sound rather than jazz. Like this next song, called Popcorn.
Before I die of excess happiness from listening to this band, I'm going to say the truth however. It's just too, bright sometimes. It's like, it's always daytime. At times, there's no emotional tension or melodic dissonance to nicely toss up the musical salad at all in these songs, so the band sort of comes off as very unicolored and commonplace, since there are a lot of bands that make songs like them. There's needs to be more variety in their sounds, otherwise they'll only attract people who are into these songs. These next couple songs will demonstrate my point.
And then they do have more moody songs, like these ones.
But it's too, typical. There are thousands of songs like this out there, and therefore songs like this often automatically lose any sort of meaning to whoever's listening, because they have lyrics and melodies that have been tried and tried exhaustively . So what they need to do, is do more songs like from their first album. Like these ones.
The second one is actually a cover of a classic Korean song from back before the 90s, but the gist is that they all have a color of their own. That's what Daybreak needs to do more, and it's not just for Daybreak, it's for every band out there. The reason I'm blabbing on about this, is that from listening to their music, I still have no clear picture of Daybreak's "sound" that is unique to only them. There will be people who disagree with me but from all these songs, I see no clear style. There is a style of course, but it's not so definite. If I'm getting too confusing, go back and check out Nell.
Of course, I might be just talking crazy, but I believe that every band should discover its own color, and stick to it, at the same time being flexible.
A band is like a person. Only when the band projects its uniqueness into full blossom, it truly shines.
But what the hell, I'm being too anal. It's great music anyhow. Great enough that I could probably listent to it until daybreak. On that note, I'm going to hit the sack. Peace!
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