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Dropping Daylight Biography( source - http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Dropping_Daylight/Biography/ )
Dropping Daylight are very much part of the post-emo era of American indie rock, with songs that favor anthemic choruses and
jagged, distorted guitar parts. However, at the same time, the young Minneapolis quartet are in some ways a throwback to a
time about decade prior to their early-2000s birth: leader Sebastian Davin's clever lyrics, rhythmic piano lines, and smooth '70s
AM radio pop vocal style strongly recall one-time alternative rock favorites like Ben Folds Five, the Eels, the ...read more
Dropping Daylight Biography( source - http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Dropping_Daylight/Biography/ )
Dropping Daylight are very much part of the post-emo era of American indie rock, with songs that favor anthemic choruses and
jagged, distorted guitar parts. However, at the same time, the young Minneapolis quartet are in some ways a throwback to a
time about decade prior to their early-2000s birth: leader Sebastian Davin's clever lyrics, rhythmic piano lines, and smooth '70s
AM radio pop vocal style strongly recall one-time alternative rock favorites like Ben Folds Five, the Eels, the New Radicals and
Fastball.
Formed in Minneapolis in 2001 with the truly rotten and achingly pretentious name "Sui Generis," Sebastian, his brother, guitarist
Seth Davin, bassist Rob Burke, and drummer Jake Englund quickly changed their name to the even worse "Sue Generis," and
released an album under that name, Back to Nowhere, in the fall of 2003. Regular touring and a buzz-enhancing performance at
the 2004 South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin led the quartet to sign with the Sony/BMG indie rock imprint Octone
Records.
After changing their name to the still not great but much less awful Dropping Daylight, the band did the Vans Warped Tour and
opened for a number of rising pop-punk and emo acts. Their first EP under the new name, Take a Photograph, was released in
the summer of 2005, after which Englund left the band, replaced by Allen Maier. Dropping Daylight's full-length debut, Brace
Yourself, was released in the spring of 2006.
Stewart Mason, All Music Guide « hide |
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