Wake Up the Sun

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1.	Wake Up the Sun 02:03	buy track
2.	Tidal Gaze 03:13	buy track
3.	Quicksand 04:21	buy track
4.	Sometimes 04:23	buy track
5.	Now You Know 05:23	buy track
6.	Want It All 04:04	buy track
7.	Tunnel Vision 05:20	buy track
8.	On the Run 05:26	buy track
9.	Ether 05:26	buy track

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Dayzed occupy that nebulous ridge between the soporific blur of shoegaze, and the more hard-lined groove of alternative-rock. ‘Wake Up The Sun’ evokes the vastness and brightness of open-air, of driving a steering wheel too hot to touch, and of solitude that’s both heavy and necessary. Dayzed is sensitive to pace—these nine songs follow a steadiness akin to more satisfying experiences of time; hours that feel deep & rolling. But as any solid debut should, it senses when to veer around, contract and spangle out.

Written and recorded across a number of sharehouses from 2018-2021, for Josh Prendergast, Dayzed has always been a kind of spiritual oasis. This record captures the sensations of Josh’s youth around the Victorian Coast, and his love for dream pop’s luminaries. DIIV is perhaps the most felt influence within Dayzed’s oeuvre, but it’s Josh’s ability to freewheel within the scope of this inspiration that makes this collection a standalone work. These songs mark an inaugural collaboration for Dayzed. Having traditionally written alone, Josh invited Tinieka Page to contribute vocals, lyrics and basslines. This creative partnership imbues an air of balance and warmth across the record.

‘Wake Up The Sun’ shimmers with the kind of confidence that’s hard to emulate— calm, clear-eyed assurance. The album’s second track, ‘Tidal Gaze’ (a fitting name for a song that feels like an unwavering, slowly-rising vision) exhibits this kind of deceptive nonchalance. Dayzed know how to tastefully build and release tension. Colours and tones evolve and shift with the same unhurried quality of Josh’s vocals across the LP. The album snakes between phantasmic, shadowy moods that appear on ‘Now You Know’ and ‘On The Run’ — both reminiscent of a night time desert montage— to the frothy, luminous sprawlings on ‘Quicksand’ and ‘Sometimes’. To listen to ‘Wake Up The Sun’ is to peer in and out of stained glass; music that is fugue, and equally, lucidity.

~ words by Jess Zanoni

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released September 21, 2023

Written, Recorded and Produced by Josh Prendergast
‘Sometimes’, ‘Want it All’ and ‘On the Run’ written by Josh Prendergast and Tinieka Page

Mixed by Casey Hartnett
Mastered by Naomune Anzai at Reel 2 Real Mix Master
Artwork and design by Tinieka Page

Thanks to Max, Stu and Fergus

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Dayzed Melbourne, Australia

Dayzed is the Naarm-based (Melbourne) studio recording project of Josh Prendergast. Blending indie rock, dream-pop and shoegaze, Dayzed creates a sun-kissed sonic palette that is formed through introspection and isolation.

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Wake Up the Sun

Sep 2023
Sometimes

Jun 2023
Quicksand

May 2023
Tunnel Vision

Jan 2023
Haze

Oct 2017
Ours For Now

Aug 2016
Washed Up

Jul 2015
Dayzed EP

Sep 2014

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