Day Wave aka Jackson Phillips, announces his new EP Crush out April 24 via PIAS Recordings, ahead of the album’s release Day wave has shared the single “Potions.”

Written and recorded after an extended break from the Day Wave world during which Phillips performed and recorded with Pete Yorn and Jai Wolf, the new collection finds Phillips reconnecting with his sonic roots as he grapples with questions of identity and purpose, fate and independence, memory and nostalgia. The four songs are built on a structural simplicity that belies their considerable emotional depth, and the arrangements are lo-fi and dreamy to match, conveying a mesmerizing intimacy that hints at everything from Guided By Voices and New Order to The Smiths and Pavement. Phillips produced, mixed, and mastered the entire EP himself in his new homebase of Los Angeles, and the end result is a raw, unfiltered look in the mirror from an artist determined to share his evolution in all its beautiful, bittersweet truth. Crush will be out on a limited 12” on Record Store Day on June 20th. Due to COVID-19 Day Wave’s New York show at Elsewhere and LA show at The Echo have been postponed until further notice.

Phillips explains, “I was really just trying to make sense of things for myself with this EP. It’s easy to feel isolated, like your thoughts don’t matter or that you’ll never be good enough, but writing these songs was my way of trying to rid myself of those toxic ideas and open myself up to a better way of living. It was my way of trying to figure out who I really was.”

Day Wave
Crush
Track list
Pias Recordings

1. Starting Again
2. Potions
3. Empty
4. Crush