Day Action Band reviewed
Day Action Band
Right On Dairyland
(Captain Cape)
Lo-fi Americana specialists begin crafting auspicious debut then run out of gas.
Claiming to draw from Cat Stevens, The Beach Boys, Fakebook-era Yo La Tengo, and Reckoning-era R.E.M., the real touchstone is Lou Barlow’s contributions to early Sebadoh. “Good To Me” has a college-town jangle and “Fixing Everything” draws almost directly from III. Elsewhere, Day Action Band like their roots rock with sparse gaps and glazed-eye roadtrip depression (“Untitled”). But then it all goes south. Not South south, just downhill. The back half of Right On Dairyland winds aimlessly and unengagingly, almost like it’s forgetting something.
— Kevin Keegan
Click here to download “Won’t Wake Up Sad.”
