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NYC based duo Dawn Park bring us their latest single “New Material,” the most recent follow up to their June EP Petulma. We originally covered a single from that very same EP here and had good things to say about them then, and that hasn’t changed in the ensuing months. Improving on their previous release with deeper experimentation with mixing and some additional complexity, “New Material” was written about: “…the feeling that we need to make some sort of dramatic, drastic change to fix whatever is going on in our lives.” I particularly enjoyed the fuzzy bass tone throughout the track, it’s difficult to describe but it just scratches an itch that’s probably related to hertz (or maybe some undiscovered childhood trauma). A lot of bands can get it wrong or overdo it; definitely not the case here. Be sure to give “New Material” a listen on Spotify, as well as[...]

New York based duo Dawn Park started off, as told on the band’s Instagram “origin story”, something like this: *video of rough version of melody* “basically just making real estate loops” “I love it” “Yeah yeah. Loop deez” “colin i’d be down to record this tn if you are” “for sure” That night, Colin Reilly and Zach Aumueller pounded out what would become “What It Was.” A healthy combination of bass, electric drums and that the aforementioned underlying melody, you can hear the influences going from Real Estate or Alex G with some Strokes thrown in. The vocals are uplifting and poppy, which provides a nice juxtaposition to the neurotic instrumental, and avoids the pitfall of being just another post-post-punk wannabe with access to recording equipment. This jives well overarching narrative behind Dawn Park, “to embody the feeling that you can always find something beautiful or funny worth experiencing in[...]