The Morning Benders, “All Day Day Light” (2010)
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I’m beginning to think that, around the turn of the year, there was some cosmic conversion of creativity and climate, where songwriters and producers somehow, instinctively knew that the upcoming summer would be a scorcher, and so they’d better write a perfect summer soundtrack for it. I can’t remember the last time there were so many perfect summer songs and I can’t remember the last time a summer was so fucking hot.

Reaching some kind of summer songs crescendo is “All Day Day Light”, which tips us off to it’s summeriness by not only coming off an album that has swimmers at a beach on it’s cover, but repeats the word “summer” twice at the beginning of every line in the chorus. So there’s no confusion there. But there’s no confusion to the song either, a clear rocker free from jadedness from an album that’s about as innocent as indie can get without ever being twee.

Let the summer roll on and the hits follow…