One amp. One mic. One person. Countless hooks. That's the Dazy formula. Since first releasing the single Bright Lights b/w Accelerate in August 2020, Dazy mastermind James Goodson has been writing, recording, and releasing new music like a man on the hunt to find the best pop hook, and he won't stop until he's put all of them into his songs. Showcasing a unique set of influences, Dazy's sound marries thumping drum machine beats, blasts of feeding back guitar, and sugar-sweet hooks into something that sounds like Godflesh covering Oasis--or maybe the other way around. With lean songwriting that recalls Teenage Fanclub but a home-recorded production style better suited for Big Black, Goodson builds a constant churn of abrasive, consuming noise and then makes it catchier than anyone else would ever dare to.
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Alien Boy is guitarist and songwriter Sonia Weber, drummer Derek McNeil, and a rotating cast of Portland, Oregon scene stalwarts. As her band's Wipers-inspired name might imply, Weber is a PDX lifer, and anyone who's spent time in the last decade's DIY circuit will recognize something undeniably West Coast in Alien Boy's sound: a sharpened, focused take on the heavy guitar pop of the 1980's, chorus pedals and punishing drums the canvas for bold strokes of recollection and yearning.