Teen Daze - Morning World

Teen Daze
Morning World
2015

This record probably is not the Teen Daze you are used to. With an on again off again relationship with dance music Morning World abandons that genre almost completely and instead goes for an almost completely analogue version of pure Indie Rock. There is a tinge of Postal Service on this record, very high praise, but the synths play more of a background role here but the honesty is still there. These songs all come across as highly personal and use the music along with the lyrics to get a strong point across of the exact emotion Tenn Daze wants you to feel. This album is all heart and it is right there in front of you, begging to be grabbed and experienced. The songs where there are few or no lyrics a reminiscent of Tycho but on a such smaller more personal scale. While Tycho is meant to be heard with 20,000 people at a venue equipped with lights this is more House show music, just you and Teen Daze having a conversation with each other. At times the music can be a bit to delicate for it's own good but it never crosses over into the twee category.

This is a very short and to the point album. Despite the long music only runs which can often drag out a record such as this out you never feel like things are going on to long here and at the close you are left longing for more. Jaimson's voice throughout is light, never really getting just above a whisper adding to the personal nature of the record. He is super open on this album not only in his lyrics but in the style of music He is playing. It takes real guts to move away from something that was working for you in the past and leave it behind to be a singer-songwriter. Morning World is an interesting and experiential record and one definitely not to be missed.

8.5 out of 10