Dayglow, Teenage Dads

“I don’t like when art feels rushed,” Sloan Struble told us at the start of the pandemic. Dayglow, his fourth full-length, doesn’t sound underserved, but it does bounce and BPM far sprightlier and most pop in relation to the rest of his effervescent oeuvre. “I was just 18 with the Fuzzybrain,” recalls the onetime UT bedroom dream-weaver on opener “Mindless Creatures,” making us suddenly nostalgic by name-dropping his 2019 viral breakout. “Nothing Ever Does!!!” similarly recalls that initiating ether, then finishes spastically Devo-esque, while “This Feeling” admits, “I wish I could relax a bit, but then I have no time.”– Raoul Hernandez