It’s hard to write about New York alt pop outfit Laundry Day without mentioning the baby elephant in the room; each of the group’s five members are still in high school. This isn’t to say that we should yield LD’s youth against them – rather, the band’s music is bolstered by their honest, adolescent songwriting, creating tunes that are contemporaneous to their own experiences and universal to anyone who has passed through the turbulence of teen years and lived to tell the tale. “Lighter / Time,” a standout from last year’s Trumpet Boy, is full of fluorescent imagery detailing young love after dark, set against brooding keys and a relaxed percussive shuffle. While I listened to “Lighter” keeping the band’s background in mind, it’s hard not to find an all-ages ubiquity in the track’s lyricism, especially given its focus on the earnest yearning and romantic fixation we all experience as “the night is falling down.” It’s a landmark effort from their first full length record, and serves as a testament to great things to come from Laundry Day in 2019 – stream it below. -Connor Beckett McInerney (@b_ck_tt), Photo by Veronica Habacker
