"this is the greatest day of my life..."
"The Greatest Day" by Vancouver BC bedroom pop / psych rock singer-songwriter, musician Julien Lavoie is beautifully romantic or surreally dark depending on the lens you view the sonic imagery through. Any way you hear it, or see it, it is an evocative piece of 50's revival rock. Done straight, apart from the washed out ethereal, haunting glaze it exists in, floating in mercurial amber it might feel like a sock hop dance in a non-descript Dwight D. Eisenhower high school gym under a glitter ball but it is not. Floating with all it's pearly translucence it feels like a haunting ghost from the past.
When we step back in this way, it is hard for me to divorce the sound from the times it came from. Those times when white picket fences and chiffon dresses, slicked back doos hid the darkness no one spoke of like hate of the other and the seeds of right wing platforms informed by the wacky side of Christian fundamentalism. In this way, this sound flows in creepy ways for me and used in a counter-intuitive way in dark films or media (Yellowjackets, David Lynchian iterations of Twin Peaks, and more come to mind), "The Greatest Day" could feel sociologically bi-polar and utterly dark.
Let's preface all I just wrote with the fact that I sometimes think too much and have been called an odd bird before and that Julien Lavoie's description of this cool track is:
"The song is a romantic ballad about love and heartbreak featuring dreamy guitars and vocals."
"The Greatest Day" is, though, anyway you cut it, emotionally complex and a truly beautiful dream.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Julien Lavoie, singer songwriter, artist, musician, diy producer, bedroom pop, psychedelic rock, revival rock, indie pop, alt pop, Vancouver, British Columbia, "The Greatest Day",
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