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Erica Zeiler's Hello Memory

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Most creative endeavors are marathons, not sprints. It's carefully honing a craft until it truly sparkles. This is both the method and madness for Brooklyn's trio, Little Daylight. By fashioning memorable and jarring pop melodies with confident and engrossing live performances, the newcomers are carving out their own little slice of sunshine with their debut album, Hello Memory. "When we first formed, which was the day we started writing 'Hello Memory', the three of us each dumped our mental baggage onto the table," said guitarist Matt Lewkowicz. What followed was the slow and arduous process of deciding what worked and what didn't, carefully defining what Little Daylight would be. "The way that we work is a lot of trimming that goes on." What resulted is an bombastic album comprised of unforgettable rhythm-oriented melodies punctuated with smartly arranged layers of synth and guitar. Grounded by Erica Zeiler's sultry vocals, each song is a carefully calibrating experiment in atmosphere, and it's determined to take you places. The album's single "Overdose" is a humming, thumping, cascading call-to-arms on the dance floor. …show more content…

"When we listen to music, we try to figure out what's behind it," said Lewkowicz. Their performances, although offering polished pop tunes, attempt to stay as tactile and raw as possible, communicating their ideas directly. "For a band to create a passionate fanbase they have to be larger than life and one of the greatest elements of that is putting on a great live show." If anything transcends in their live sets it is clearly seeing artists do what they love, that authenticity doesn't take much

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