Stream: Day Wave, ‘As You Are’

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Day Wave (Photo by Natalie Hewitt)

Jackson Phillips has been mighty busy as a co-songwriter and collaborator — tracks by artists such as BEL, Hazel English, Winter, Hana Vu and Sea Lemon all have a dusting of his dreamy and/or jangling indie-pop.

So “As You Are” is the first single from his solo project Day Wave since “Pastlife,” the acclaimed album he released in the summer of ’22.

Day Wave’s penchant for turning existential weight into lithe pop songs propelled by zephyrs of nostalgia and yearning remains nonpareil. Sometimes you think staring into the abyss has no business being this pretty. The textures in “As You Are” are darker, but not without reason.

“It’s about a relationship unraveling, and the moment you realize that neither person is willing to change to make it work,” Phillips says of the new single. “The song took a while to fully come to fruition. I had been playing the chord progression over and over again for months before I actually wrote the song over it.”

There’s no word of larger release, but Day Wave has announced a tour in May supporting Two Door Cinema Club (no Los Angeles dates, though).

||| Stream: “As You Are”

||| Previously: “Loner,” “Pastlife,” “Where Do You Do,” “Before We Knew”