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DAIISTAR — Good Time (Fuzz Club)

Good Time by DAIISTAR

Earlier this year, the Austin psychedelic shoegazers known as DAIISTAR released a cover of Primal Scream’s “Burning Wheel” from 1997’s Vanishing Point, a landmark in dub-kraut-scree transcendence, which is as good a reference point as any for this upstart band. Indeed, if Creation Records were still making records, DAIISTAR would fit like a glove. This foursome howls like a banshee, kicks like a mule and churns a white-noise hedonism which is very 1990s and very good.

The band is made of Alex Capistran, last spotted contributing a guitar solo to Warm Soda’s I Don’t Want to Grow Up, alongside drummer Nick Cornetti of American Sharks and Cartwright, bassist Misti Hamrick from dreampop Pale Dīan and keyboard player Derek Strahan. This debut album was produced by The Black Angels’ Alex Maas and shares that band’s penchant for ecstatic, Jesus & Mary Chain-style fuzz.

You could start, maybe, with “Tracemaker,” a dopplering, wailing wall of guitars, paced by shambolic tambourine. It’s like MBV but poppier, with a swaggering beat and soft, tuneful vocals whispered into an already overloaded amp. Or consider the very Brian Jonestown Massacre-ish “Purified,” with its limpid, drug-dream guitar line and murmured lyrics. Straight up and down, but wavering at the edges, it’s massive and sweet at the same time. “Speed Jesus,” brings big viscous keyboards up to the front, then knocks them down with a blaring haze of guitar. It has the relentless motion of Primal Scream’s best wide-horizons psych, leaning back and rolling from the hips as it saunters on, wigging out but in the coolest, most nonchalant way.

This album is well-named, containing not perhaps the most groundbreaking of sounds but a very good time all the same. So break out the strobe lights and plug in the pedals. The 24-hour party people are here again.  

Jennifer Kelly

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CONTRA2023-12 DIE LAUGHING

TRACKLIST:

Upchuck - Freaky Osees - Sleazoid Psycho Nite Music - (I've Got To Make) The Call Benny J. Ward - I Didn't Mean It King Tuff - Symphony Of A Man Snõõper - Music For Spies Axis: Sova - Hardcore Maps Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Whirlpool Dub Black Mekon - Buhlak Me Kong Goat - I Became The Unemployment Office PABLO X - Mad Dog DAIISTAR - Repeater Sparklehorse - Listening To The Higsons Wilco- Evicted The Whiffs - Satellites The Linda Lindas - Resolution/Revolution PAL - Alphabetter Sufjan Stevens - So You Are Tired

The 12th playlist of the year! 

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

Formed back in 2020, Austin-based shoegazers DAIISTAR (pronounced Day-Star) — Alex Capistran (vocals, guitar), Nick Cornetti (drums), Misti Hamrick (bass) and Derek Strahan (keys) — have established a narcotic blend of noise and melody that draws from the neo-psychedelic era of the 80s and 90s, but modernizes it with modulating synths, heavy guitars, bouncing bass lines and spiraling hooks.  The Austin shoegeazer outfit’s Alex Maas-produced full-length debut, last year’s GoodTime featured the fuzzy The Jesus and Mary Chain-meets- Crocodiles-like “Parallel” and revealed a band that paid a remarkable amount of attention to craft with a penchant for catchy hooks. The band supported the album touring across North America with The Black Angels, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, and included festival circuit stops at Levitation, Desert Daze, SXSW, Freak Out, Treefort, as well as a KEXP session.  The Austin shoegazers are currently on a European tour. Those tour dates are below. But they’ll be releasing the “Clear”/”Velvet Reality (Sonic Boom ” Remix 7 inch through Fuzz Club. Slated for a May 10, 2024 release, the 7 inch will feature “Clear,” a previously unreleased song recored during the GoodTime sessions. “Clear” is a reverb-drenched bliss bomb featuring shimmering synths, Capistran’s dreamily delivered falsetto paired with a slow-burning groove. The song, to me at least, brings road trips on glorious, sunny afternoons — full of hope, possibility, life-altering adventures and laughs.  DAIISTAR’s Alex Capistran (guitar/vocals) explained that “the idea behind ‘Clear’ was to write the perfect song for a perfect day. A song that comes to mind on a warm and sunny afternoon; inspiring thoughts of attainable bliss and encouraging you to dream up something nice for your future self.” Album track “Velvet Reality,” closes out GoodTime with a dreamy, washed-out haze. Spacemen 3 co-founder Pete Kember, a.k.a. Sonic Boom gives “Velvet Reality” the remix treatment, further deconstructing the song by making it even more ethereal and hazier than its original while also giving the oscillating and fluttering synths more of an emphasis. The result is an ethereal and narcoleptic bit of shoegaze seemingly informed by doo wop. TOUR DATES 4/19 ES BARCELONA – BARCELONA PSYCH FEST 4/20 ES ZARAGOZA – LATA DE BOMBILLAS 4/21 ES SAN SEBASTIAN – DABADABA 4/23 CH BERN – CAFE KAIRO 4/24 IT BOLOGNA – COVO CLUB 4/25 IT ROMA – GLITCH 4/26 IT FIRENZE – THE CAVE 4/27 IT LENO – PRIMO MAGGIO ROCK! 4/30 DE BERLIN – LOOPHOLE 5/1 DE VIECHTACH – ALTES SPITAL 5/2 DE STUTTGART – DIE WAGENHALLEN 5/3 DE FRANKFURT – THE UP CLUB 5/4 NL EINDHOVEN – FUZZ CLUB FEST 5/5 DE GIESSEN – PITS PINTE 5/6 NL AMSTERDAM – OCCII 5/7 NL WAGENINGEN – LOBURG LIVE 5/8 NL THE HAGUE – MUSICON 5/9 FR ROUEN – LE 3 PIECES 5/10 UK LONDON – STRONGROOM 5/11 UK HULL – ALOFT AT THE HAWORTH 5/12 UK GLASGOW – THE OLD HAIRDRESSERS 5/14 UK SOUTHAMPTON – HEARTBREAKER 5/15 UK BRISTOL – CROFTERS RIGHTS 5/16 UK FOLKESTONE – THE CHAMBERS 5/17 FR PARIS LE TRUSKEL – CLUB 5/18 FR LE HAVRE – FOUL WEATHER FESTIVAL 5/21 FR LYON – LE SONIC 5/22 FR BORDEAUX – I-BOAT 5/24 FR PORTSALL – O’DONNEIL IRISH PUB 5/25 FR ANGERS – LEVITATION FESTIVAL

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Texas Noise-Pop Group DAIISTAR Shares Sonic Boom Remix Of "Velvet Reality"

Photo by Sheva Kafai Austin, TX noise-pop upstarts DAIISTAR are today releasing a Sonic Boom remix of their track ‘Velvet Reality’, lifted from a new 7” out May 10th on Fuzz Club that also features their recently released single ‘Clear‘ on the A-side. Listen here: daiistar.lnk.to/velvetremix ‘Clear’ and this accompanying remix arrive off the back of DAIISTAR’s highly-praised 2023 debut album…

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Daiistar

Clear

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DAIISTAR - Clear

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DAIISTAR - Good Time

DAIISTAR decidieron formar la banda justo en el peor momento para hacerlo, una semana antes de que empezara el confinamiento por la pandemia. Así, este cuarteto de Austin vio como esa ilusión que se tiene al empezar un nuevo proyecto, se iba a la mierda. Pero, lejos de venirse abajo, decidieron seguir trabajando en sus canciones y esperar el momento oportuno para poder pulirlas juntos. Quizá, por…

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ALBUM REVIEW: DAIISTAR- Good Time

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Daiistar - Repeater

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IN A MINUTE:

A POST/PUNK EXPRESS… “FLY SONG” is a choice cut from @civic_aus’s freshly released LP titled ‘Taken By Force’ (@cookingvinylaustralia@atorecords) & it finds the Melbourne-based wreckers bringing their no-frills brand of road dogging & classic_rawking punk. @daiistarr are here w/ a new standalone single titled “TRACEMAKER” & it finds the Austin-based quintet of Alex Capistran (guitar/vox), Misti Hamrick (bass), Nick Brown (guitar), Derek Strahan (keys) & Nick Cornetti (drums) bringing a gazey piece of Alt-tinged PsychRawk. “FOREVER” is the closing track from @myhairisaratsnest brand new EP titled ‘fragment’ (@_tomb_tree_) & it finds Jake Campbell’s Albuquerque-based project living that “One-person screamo” lyfe across damn near 6 mins of relentlessly skramz-assed EMOtional PostHardcore. @poisonruin are here w/ “HÄRVEST,” the lead single/title-track from their forthcoming LP (4/14 @relapserecords) & it finds the Philly-based unit bringing an absolutely killer blend of blown-out DeathRock meets classic SST vibes that more than manages to satiate all your DOOMER needs. @purling_hiss are here w/ “BABY,” the second single from their forthcoming LP titled ‘Drag On Girard’ (3/24 @dragcityrecords) & it finds Mike Polizze’s Philly-based project dropping a murky bout of chaotically fuzzed-up NoisePop. @truthcultband are here w/ “CLEARSKIN,” the latest single from their forthcoming LP titled ‘Walk The Wheel’ (3/3 @popwig) & it finds the Baltimore-based quartet of Paris Roberts, Emily Ferrara, Ian Marshall & Robin Zeijlon melding OG post_hardcoring fury w/ some serious six-string flex.

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LyrIc Video: DAIISTAR Shares Euphoric Bliss Bomb "Clear"

LyrIc Video: DAIISTAR Shares Euphoric Bliss Bomb "Clear" @DAIISTARR @FuzzClub @forcefieldpr @NoExitPR

Formed back in 2020, Austin-based shoegazers DAIISTAR (pronounced Day-Star) — Alex Capistran (vocals, guitar), Nick Cornetti (drums), Misti Hamrick (bass) and Derek Strahan (keys) — have established a narcotic blend of noise and melody that draws from the neo-psychedelic era of the 80s and 90s, but modernizes it with modulating synths, heavy guitars, bouncing bass lines and spiraling hooks. The…

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DAIISTAR Released New Single "Clear" Via Fuzz Club

Photo courtesy of the band. Austin’s noise-pop newcomers DAIISTAR drop their dreamy new single “Clear” today, March 19. Fresh off the success of their acclaimed 2023 debut album “Good Time,” the track embodies their signature blend of noise and melody, produced by Alex Maas of The Black Angels and engineered by White Denim’s James Petralli. With a Sonic Boom remix of “Velvet Reality” from “Good…

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