There’s a film of which I am fond. So fond of said film, in fact, that I would like at some point to get its protagonist, Bill, tattooed upon me somewhere. Which wouldn’t be hard, to be fair, considering that Bill is essentially, in essence, a stick man. A damn fine stick at that, with a nifty hat, but a stick man nevertheless. Anyhow, this week’s Single of the Week is about Bill too, taking its name from the long animated short of which he is star, It’s Such a Beautiful Day.
If you’ve not seen It’s Such a Beautiful Day, I highly recommend that you do. Right now. Well, not right now, because you’re reading this and you’re going to listen to ‘It’s Such a Beautiful Day’ by Bad Dreams and then you’re going to like and share the shit out of it, because it’s just so damn lovely and you’ll want all your friends to know about it. Once you’ve done all that, then go and watch It’s Such a Beautiful Day though because it is sincerely a beautiful little film. Powerful, emotional, funny, dark. It’s a head fornicator.
Anyway, Single of the Week; Bad Dreams is the electronic alter-ego of one Matthew Politoski, frontman for kind of county inclined indie rockers Animal Flag, and ‘It’s Such a Beautiful Day’ is not just our Single of the Week, but also the lead and title track off of his debut EP as Bad Dreams.
Enough of the cold hard facts, I hear you cry, what about them warm fuzzy feels!? Well, firstly, settle down, I was rambling my way there eventually. Secondly, it has all of them warm fuzzy feels, literally all of them. Well, most of them. The sad ones mainly. If you’re unconvinced by the idea of a song about a stickman from an animated film, shame on you, because ‘It’s Such a Beautiful Day’ is bloody lovely. Both sincere, in that you feel Politoski really is singing of a friend name Bill, and genuinely emotive. It’ll get you ruminating like it ain’t no thing.
Plus, it comes across like the end result of Conor Oberst writing a dream pop/shoegaze song as arranged for a synth outfit, with Oberst on vocals too. Which, when you hear it, you will come to realise is the exact sound that has been missing from your life all along. And what a beautiful day it will be to have discovered it finally.
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