Argh! Day Wave! Why are you so cute? Why do you write songs that make us all feel super sad the summer’s ending? The Oakland-based musician’s been drip-feeding the internet his splendidly sunny-sad indie pop tunes since “Total Zombie” some seven months ago, and that particular song’s had nearly three quarters of a million plays on Soundcloud since. (We premiered “We Try But We Don’t Fit In” back in June.)
Since then he’s self-released his Headcase EP and with this song today Day Wave—that’s Jackson Phillips to his mom—announced his union with the UK’s House Arrest Records.
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He’ll be heading to Europe soon, the lucky bugger.
