Japanese dream rock/alt band DYGL (pronounced ‘day-glo’) have unleashed their new single “Crawl“.
The track is out now via their Easy Enough label and is taken from the upcoming EP ‘Cut the Collar’, out later this year. Grab it here.
‘Crawl’ is an upbeat jangle pop/post punk track teeming with a nostalgia that is full of feeling and movement. Nobuki Akiyama’s vocals are a youthful pastiche of indie boy band frontmen of the 90s and early noughties. Bright, daydreamy melodies carried by jangly, intricate guitar work chime and twinkle as a melodic bassline locks in with the drums to create a danceable groove. Eventually giving way to a lush half-time outro, the track leaves listeners spellbound and yearning for more.
DYGL said:
“We feel like making music that makes people dance more, which people can feel by their body more than their ears. We celebrate the sounds of instruments as well as vocals, more than ever. After the COVID situation settled, we started to get back the opportunity to experience live music in our daily lives, and it heavily inspired our creativity these days. It’s the song that includes the frustration of getting stuck in the same place, but also having some ambition to leave there to be free.”
Take a listen now.
About DYGL
Hailing from the neon-clad metropolis Tokyo, DYGL formed in 2012 when members Nobuki Akiyama (vocal & guitar), Kohei Kamoto (drums), Yotaro Kachi (bass), and Yosuke Shimonaka (guitar) were in Meiji Gakuin University. The group has already put out 4 studio albums. After the release of their first EP in 2015, the band collaborated with one of their long-time idols, Albert Hammond Jr. (guitarist for The Strokes) and Gus Oberg, producing their 2017 debut album Say Goodbye to Memory Den. A Daze In A Haze (2021) and Thirst (2022) followed, along with mounting recognition, bookings and praise.
Inspired by Beach Fossils, Sonic Youth, The Feelies, The Garden, and Television, their unique blend of jangle pop, indie rock will sure appeal to lovers of Pixies, Interpol, and Beach Fossils.
Photo credit: Kohei Yonaha
DYGL “Crawl”
