Following some serious teasing last week, Easy Life have stayed true to their promise of new material. The multigenre quintet shared their brand new single, Daydreams, last night (October 21st).
Daydreams is the first offering from Easy Lifes’ upcoming album. It will be the first multitrack record from the band since Junk Food, the eclectic mixtape that came out on January 10th.
An ode to Daydreaming by the late great Aretha Franklin, Easy Life sampled the track for their reworking. According to an official press release, Easy life relayed that Daydreams delves into the 1972 hit, reworking it so it radiates “modern-day escapism.”
And modern-day escapism it is. Easy Life loop Franklin’s opening lines, “Daydreaming and I’m thinking of you”, but with a twist. With added vibey percussion and synthesisers, Daydreams is a lucid take on Franklin’s classic, yet it still sounds unmistakably Easy Life. The lowkey psychedelic piano melody and Murry Matravers’ hypnotic voice accompanies Franklin’s mighty vocals brilliantly, creating a song one can get lost in.
Murray Matravers, lead vocalist for Easy Life, spoke on Daydreaming. Mutravers meditated upon life since lockdown, stating “like most of us, I’ve spent the whole year sitting at home daydreaming about a possible alternate reality.”
Mutravers meditated that Daydreams, although it sounds like it, is not wholly romantic. Matravers elaborated, explaining that it was “born out of boredom and idleness…‘Daydreams’ is as much about getting drunk as it is about falling in and out of love.”
This idea certainly appears in the song’s honest chorus. Matravers sings “Daydreaming and I’m thinking of you/Day drinking just for something to do”, pairing alcohol and lovesickness. Easy Life premiered Daydreams for their 118,000 subscribers via YouTube last night (October 21st).
The Nightmares hitmakers also took to Instagram today to celebrate the arrival of Daydreams. Posting a snap of the claw machine cover art, the band said of Daydreams: “it’s Annie Mac’s hottest record in the world on radio 1 at 6 pm.” Garnering over 9000 likes, fans rejoiced at Daydreams’ recognition from BBC Radio 1.
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Daydreams is the latest offering from Easy Life since who gives a f***? A two-track single, who gives a f***? dropped on July 10th and contains the songs Poptarts and Nightmares.
In other news, Easy Life are set to make a special appearance on Fraser T Smith’s upcoming album, 12 Questions. Scheduled for arrival tomorrow (October 23rd), musician and producer Fraser T Smith has recruited the likes of Arlo Parks, Stormzy, Idris Elba and Dave. Fraser T Smith will release 12 Questions under the moniker Future Utopia.
Daydreams is out now.
