#9 Brand New – Daisy
December 23, 2009
What? What?!?! I fucking love Brand New. And given the oppurtunity would totally fellate Jesse Lacey. So it only makes sense that Daisy would be on my top list of releases this year. Leaps and bounds. Thats what Brand New has done here. Daisy enters a new chapter in the lives of these Long Islanders. More abrasive than their last few albums but still using that vulnerability that Lacey’s vocals are so famous for, Daisy is as much grunge as it is indie. Songs like “Vices” and “At the Bottom” feel reminicent of 2006′s The Devil and God Are Raging Inside of Me. Yet the hold a harder more grunge tinged edge than what was found on TDAGARIM. Then you have a song like Be Gone. One of my favorite tracks on the album simply because of its country twanged melody and chopped up vocals. Fascinating to say the least, on this release Brand New experimenting certainly paid off. Still catchy minus the usual poppiness, Daisy came through for those of us waiting for another Brand New CD. High-fives for Jesse Lacey and the crew are in order.
