Pushing the singer-songwriter sound into more indie-folk and even dream-pop territories, “Summer Days Are Never The Same” is a masterclass of how you separate yourself from that slew of gap-year troubadours and wannabe pop-pickers who have taken over the genre.
No, without seeming even to try, this effortlessly echoes those earliest, Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter sounds, not least the more chilled end of Jackson Browne’s repertoire for poise and sophisticated richness, yet does so in a way that is far from a nostalgic mining of past glories or sounding at all sonically retrospective.
Taking influence and inspiration from earlier times is fine, but that was then, and this is now, and if there is an echo of such past glories, it doesn’t come at the expense of a certain modernity, and in that circular and cyclical way that music moves along, perhaps even predicting a return to such sonic benchmarks and creative values, which would really be something.
There is a gentleness and dreamscape lushness to the song, a sonic embrace far removed from your average guitar-wielding, modern wannabe minstrel, an honesty and emotional truth that rides through the song in a way that sets it apart for the shallowness of the run-of-the-mill contemporary music maker, who seem more entrenched with a pursuit of fame and fortune than with he creation of something truly beautiful.
This song is truly beautiful.
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