Hazy Days – Yoofs // Song Of The Day #397

I might be listening to a little too much D’Angelo at the minute – but really, the beginning of this sounds exactly like a half-time version of the intro to ‘Devil’s Pie’, doesn’t it?

Yoofs are a Bournemouth band who like reverb, whammy bars, and metallic distortion. ‘Hazy Days’, out today as a free download on The Sounds of Sweet Nothing, is a summertime waltz that immediately brings to mind the Electric Soft Parade, but that sounds like it was recorded live, to a cassette boom box, somewhere deep in the Pacific. The drums are particularly enjoyable here: snapping hats and funk-indebted snare rolls a-go-go.

Stream ‘Hazy Days’ below – and check out their labelmates California X, whose first track appeared last week.