It’s a rainy and cold bank holiday Monday, and I find myself curled up in my room avoiding a machine learning assignment by instead consuming an endless stream of everything Fazerdaze. Like the condensation on the window it’s one of those bands that just creep up on you, at first you dismiss it as a catchy poppy song, but before you know it you’ve listened to their entire back catalogue, read everything about them, and you can’t see out your window!
I still can’t quite put my finger on exactly why they’ve got under my skin. But there’s something intoxicating about not knowing why you love something. Like the beautifully simplistic song Somethink, with lyrics like “Something in the way your smile disappears when you look at me, Something in the way you love me, Something in the way you don’t”. You need to touch it and prod it as much as you can to figure it out how it makes your heart beat a little faster.
There’s nothing attention grabbing about Fazerdaze, like Amelia herself who seems the typical self deprecating New Zealander, but perhaps its that unassumingness that makes it all the more endearing. Amelia although only 24 has been around the music scene for a while, getting into music at an early age as a solace from a chaotic family life. Music was where she found her people, and clearly her passion. And with bedfellows like Goodshirt’s Gareth Thomas as her testing ear, I wouldn’t be surprised if she is on her way to being part of New Zealand’s music royalty. In song “Little Uneasy” you can hear shades of her quoted early musical influence, Smashing Pumpkins. That is, if you can imagine Smashing Pumpkins had taken antidepressants and instead of Billy Corgan’s intense 90’s twang vocals its a bit more dreamy and you can bath in the bliss filled summer that’s not outside your window.
Fazerdaze’s first full album, Morningside, has been released today. Check them out, but be careful after a few listens you might find yourself dancing around your room with Fazerdaze on repeat…..and if I keep avoiding my machine learning course that’s no doubt where the robots will find me too.
I still can’t quite put my finger on exactly why they’ve got under my skin. But there’s something intoxicating about not knowing why you love something. Like the beautifully simplistic song Somethink, with lyrics like “Something in the way your smile disappears when you look at me, Something in the way you love me, Something in the way you don’t”. You need to touch it and prod it as much as you can to figure it out how it makes your heart beat a little faster.
There’s nothing attention grabbing about Fazerdaze, like Amelia herself who seems the typical self deprecating New Zealander, but perhaps its that unassumingness that makes it all the more endearing. Amelia although only 24 has been around the music scene for a while, getting into music at an early age as a solace from a chaotic family life. Music was where she found her people, and clearly her passion. And with bedfellows like Goodshirt’s Gareth Thomas as her testing ear, I wouldn’t be surprised if she is on her way to being part of New Zealand’s music royalty. In song “Little Uneasy” you can hear shades of her quoted early musical influence, Smashing Pumpkins. That is, if you can imagine Smashing Pumpkins had taken antidepressants and instead of Billy Corgan’s intense 90’s twang vocals its a bit more dreamy and you can bath in the bliss filled summer that’s not outside your window.
Fazerdaze’s first full album, Morningside, has been released today. Check them out, but be careful after a few listens you might find yourself dancing around your room with Fazerdaze on repeat…..and if I keep avoiding my machine learning course that’s no doubt where the robots will find me too.
