Dear Friends: Life during a pandemic is fk’ing weird, exhausting and surreal for us all. This was supposed to be the time we had a break from it but apparently covid doesn’t slow down in heat and humidity as other viruses do. That’s not good. In fact, the pandemic is now an epidemic in the U.S. and maybe Brazil. It’s embarrassing to the rest of the world that we cannot do this nationwide like some of the New England states have figured out. Come on America! Please wear masks.
Possibly a musical metaphor of the down and up rollacoaster we’ve all been doing for five months now, the lo-fi, slow-burning, funky and heavily melodic track from Santa Cruz indie band Day Trip fuses sparse arrangements and catchy, complex instrumentals with wispy vocals and driving rhythms.
The band’s music fills the room with more sound than one may expect from these three sweet peas: Jillian “Bean” White (bass, vocals), Franky Kohn (guitar, synth), and Lauren DiQuattro (drums).
This is the Day Trip’s first single released on San Francisco-based, female-run, independent record label Honeydew Records.
Day Trip met during their time in college at UC Santa Cruz, starting out with two members and an electronic drummer. Once the third member in the trio joined the project, they “fired the robot drummer and never looked back.”
The band has opened for many other indie bands including Crumb, Video Age, Foliage, galpal, Douse, Taleen Kali, and Cathedral Bells with main
influences like Warpaint, The Smiths, and The Cure.
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Note: Although a part-time resident of Santa Cruz, this author has not yet seen them live.