ARTIST: Daphne Loves Derby
TITLE: Good Night, Witness Light
LABEL: Outlook Music
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 191kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 39m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-03-27
RIP DATE: 2007-02-12
Track List
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1. Are Two Chords Enough, Dear? 1:35
2. Stranger, You and I 3:12
3. Iron in the Backseat 3:54
4. No One is Convinced 3:47
5. Marching Band Intro 0:50
6. That's Our Hero Shot 2:59
7. To Struggle With Light Colors 3:35
8. Cue The Sun! 3:33
9. Miniature Christmass Tree 2:50
10. Love & Mercy 2:55
11. Hello Color Red 2:52
12. The Best Part About It Honey 3:13
13. How's It Going to End? 4:19
Release Notes:
Like Nirvana did almost two decades previously, the pop-friendly indie trio
Daphne Loves Derby originally formed in a small town near Seattle, WA (Kent
rather than Aberdeen, in their case) when the bandmembers were still teenagers.
However, Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic didn't have the Internet when they were
kids, so they didn't have the opportunities to jump the queue afforded by
websites like MySpace and purevolume, and Cobain's personal demons are nowhere
to be found in this young group's tuneful and relatively sunny music.
One of the new generation of bands whose high online profiles led to a
relatively quick record deal, Daphne Loves Derby formed in 2002 when a
14-year-old prodigy named Jason Call sent an instant message to high-school
sophomore Kenny Choi after he saw Choi's first band play a local party. Choi, a
singer and guitarist, accepted Call's invitation to jam with the young bassist
and the equally youthful drummer Stu Clay. Fitting rehearsals around their
academic schedule (impressively, Call managed to graduate not only from high
school, but from college, in time for his 18th birthday), Call, Choi, and Clay
made their public debut at a local music festival where they learned just before
they went on-stage that there was already another band with their original name;
Choi impulsively announced that their new name was Daphne Loves Derby, a
meaningless handle that nonetheless stuck.
Daphne Loves Derby's homemade demo and free online downloads showcased the
band's blend of winsome popcraft (α la the Shins, whose breathy vocal style Choi
fairly approximates) and Death Cab for Cutie-style indie rock, garnering the
band enough of a fan base to begin touring. In early 2005, Daphne Loves Derby
signed with Outlook Music, a burgeoning indie label owned by Denver Broncos
linebacker Trevor Pryce, and released their debut EP, Closing Down the Pattern
Department. That EP, which consisted primarily of the songs already available
online, was quickly followed by the all-new On the Strength of All Convinced, a
more varied and poppier record that included the single "Hammers and Hearts."