Daryl Johns (Mac DeMarco/The Lemon Twigs) shares "Happy" single/video, taken from debut album out 22nd November on Mac's Record Label
Daryl Johns
Shares New Single & Video, “Happy”
Debut Album, Daryl Johns,
Out November 22nd Via Mac’s Record Label
Los Angeles-based bassist and songwriter Daryl Johns shares new single "Happy", taken from his self-titled debut album, out November 22nd via Mac’s Record Label.
“Happy” is the album’s theme-song—the album’s slogan, its logo. A celebration of a very American fashion: here, bud, have this beer. And while Daryl himself drinks gin, with “Happy” he asks the listener, “Get hip to me! I love jazz.” Yes, Daryl…yes, you do. Oh yes, you certainly do. “In the jazz world we just call it fusion,” mutters Johns.
The accompanying video's director and editor, Salvador Cresta, says of the song:
“‘Happy’ celebrates very simple things that are at the same time very important to keep a person alive. The sun. To be barefoot in the sand. The food. And above all, the music. Daryl has this written on his skin: ‘I Love Jazz.’ There are no HD paradise landscapes in bikini, just a group of good friends throwing a ball on the beach. No abundant banquets either, just pizza and hot dogs. A succession of simple and ordinary good times... those kinds of moments that can go unnoticed, but after a long time they end up becoming our best memories.”
Daryl Johns - “Happy”
Video: https://daryljohns.lnk.to/happy/youtube
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Daryl Johns writes euphoric pop music “of a certain Irish quality.” His earnestly hopeful TV show theme music, bent over the knee of New Jersey “diner rock”—his “pop for victory”—his “champion pop,” his “sped up pop”—sometimes his sunny “bubblegum country” or his coke-eyes “motivational jazz fusion”—all find their home on the artist’s debut. The record presents these musical landing points in a cohesive 14-track collection: sugar-powered anthems for the everyman.
Since moving westward to join the band of the reigning king of indie rock, Mac DeMarco, Johns has found footing in a community of artists that includes 70s soft-rock revival band, Drugdealer, and various new wave jazz musicians such as Pedro Martins and Chris Fishman. Born to jazz musician parents—and with many celebrating Johns previously as the foremost jazz upright bassist of his generation (having created a unique sound so far eluding imitation)—Daryl is known and beloved for his performance and recording work with Pat Metheny, Martins, Vijay Iyer, The Lemon Twigs, Macy Gray, and Immanuel Wilkins to name only a handful. He has steadily built notoriety as a solo artist; and, with this debut, Daryl Johns, Johns offers, “I just made it cuz I like it. I just wanna have fun.” He continues, “Let’s have a good time.”
Daryl Johns Tracklist:
1. Corner Store
2. Happy
3. I’m So Serious
4. Crash
5. Barbecue In The Sun
6. Let Her Go
7. Golden Showers
8. The Deputy of East Carlock
9. Just Friends
10. Casper
11. Palermo
12. Whoops
13. Friends Forever
14. Maggie and Me
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