Q&A: Dayglow Brings A Light Hearted Energy To Forecastle Music Festival

 

☆ BY ZAYNE ISOM ☆

 
 

KNOWN FOR HIS 80s SYNTHS AND GROOVY MUSIC - Dayglow started off his career in Austin, Texas. After learning to use Garageband as a kid, he fell in love with producing and using synths to make music.  From there, the 23-year-old released his first body of work, Fuzzybrain in 2019. His song “Can I Call You Tonight,” off of that album, ended up blowing up the indie charts overnight and helped jumpstart his career. Since releasing Fuzzybrain, Dayglow has gone on to do multiple tours, release a sophomore album titled Harmony House and start his own record label, “Very Nice Records.” 

Sloan Struble, frontman of Dayglow, sat down with Luna to chat before his Sunday set at Forecastle. Struble has just spent the last few months on his Harmony House tour stretching across the US and EU and started his summer festival circuit last weekend with Hangout in Gulf Shores, Alabama. 

LUNA: I know you just spent the last few months touring Europe, how was that? 

STRUBLE: It was awesome. Really encouraging to meet people from countries I’ve never been to and have them be fans, it's really confusing. I had been to the UK before and played shows there but we expanded further across the UK than we had before and then also all the European countries we hadn’t been to. 

LUNA: What is it like playing festivals after spending months on the road touring? 

STRUBLE: We’ve been doing a lot of festivals this summer. It’s really fun and a different experience. My music is definitely festival music and makes total sense. But, I like touring more if I had to pick. I’m very stoked to be here though and very thankful to Forecastle for inviting me. There’s a certain energy that makes it really exciting. It's kind of competitive, like whos going to come to my set. But at the end of the day,  we are all having fun and we are really glad to be here. 

LUNA: How do you feel like you stay grounded while touring and playing all these festivals? 

STRUBLE: I just don’t really allow myself to think about that I guess. I try to just stay focused on what I’m doing. You just show up, do your thing and hopefully, it goes well. I’m just having fun and thankfully everyone in my crew is my friend. 

LUNA: Do you have any upcoming projects you are working on? Is anything new on the radar that we should know about? 

STRUBLE: I do! I’m releasing music this summer and rolling out some music this year. I’m actually playing one of the new songs today (May 29th). I’m really excited for people to hear the recording. I’m a producer so I’d rather people hear the recording first, but I wanted to challenge myself by playing it.

LUNA: Are there any people you’d love to collaborate with in the future? I know you’ve mentioned in the past that Tame Impala is a big musical inspiration of yours, do you have any others? 

STRUBLE: I can’t imagine a universe where I would say “no” to working with Kevin Parker, that would be sweet. I don’t know though, it depends on the context. I would love to write with anyone or be in the studio with anybody; I have a long list of artists that I love. But as far as collaborating with Dayglow, I don't know. It’s a really special thing that I do all by myself so for a while, I’m gonna keep it that way. However, I would love to write and produce in the studio for other people. It’s kind of my life goal to end up doing that. Dayglow is my unfiltered output of the music that I make. 

LUNA: Speaking of producing, what do you feel about the comments people are making about Harry Style’s new album Harry’s House in relation to your music? 

STRUBLE: I’m a big Harry Styles fan. I know what they are talking about and I definitely see it. I’m not at all frustrated, I’m totally flattered at the idea that Harry Styles, who kinda decides how pop culture moves, made something so similar to what I’ve made before is just really encouraging to me as an artist. It makes me excited to release music right now if that's the climate we are in. If this is what Harry wants to make than that would be a collab I’m down for. I would love to write with him. Before I had even said anything, hundreds of people had come to the same conclusion that aren’t even my fans. He didn’t sample anything, it's just a vibe. My managers know his managers so there are things in the works and that's all I will say. 

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