Day Wave makes glorious return with ‘Starting Again’

California’s melancholy dreamer Day Wave is finally back with the release of his sophisticated and wistful single ‘Starting Again’.

After three years of being quiet, we were starting to get worried Jackson Phillips gun up the guitar, but critically acclaimed one-man indie band known is back bigger and stronger with the announcement of a new EP titled ‘Crush’ in the pipeline for April 24th.

The lead single ‘Starting Again’ floats on a bed of arpeggiated guitars and lush synthesizers as it walks the line between hopeful optimism and wistful melancholia. It’s classic Day Wave with the effect-heavy guitars and brimming with emotion, it feels like Day Wave wants to get something off his chest insisting, “I won’t be caught in the moment, I’m starting again / I will take care of myself, I’m not done yet.”

Phillips says “I wrote ‘Starting Again’ in a time when I needed to get out of a creative and emotional rut. It’s about ridding yourself of people who convince you that you’re not good enough.

“Sometimes that person can be yourself, and it can be a struggle to start over with a new outlook. But I still try.”

Since Day Wave’s 2017 debut, The Days We Had, Phillips has performed worldwide headlining sold-out shows and shared stages with the likes of The Shins and Spoon in addition to landing festival slots from Lollapalooza to Governor’s Ball.

“It’s easy to feel isolated, like your thoughts don’t matter or that you’ll never be good enough, but writing these songs was my way of trying to rid myself of those toxic ideas and open myself up to a better way of living. It was my way of trying to figure out who I really was.” – Day Wave

Phillips has a pair of shows on the horizon, performing at Elsewhere in New York City on May 4 and The Echo in Los Angeles May 11. One imagines we’ll be hearing more from him before then.

Featured image by Daniel Topete