Austin Texas songwriter Daphne Tunes, (basically a guy called Santiago RD working with a set of like-minded musicians), have all of the chord and mood changes you could ever want. They have them in spades and might remind you of Betty Serveert, Lemonheads, Sebadoh, East River Pipe, Elliott Smith or Red House Painters, bands and artists who excelled in these things twenty years or so back in time or Big Star, who were doing something not dissimilar twenty years before that.
Or they might just make you glad to be listening to them, on their debut EP Volume 1 which came out earlier this year and is full of poignant, well judged mood shifts. Big Star's Radio City and Sister Lovers are the most obvious precedents for this but this is not easy stuff to pull off quite as well as they do. Daphne Tunes yearn and bliss out to their hearts content and makes me at least anticipate Volume 2 greatly.
In their own words the songs are 'mostly trying to catch the color blue, a lighter shade of blue, that's evocative of a feeling in the morning. It was trying to be fresh, but not too woken up, sort of slow-going, drowsy pop or Sunday pop.'
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