Days N Daze

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Photo by: Brandon Walsh (Punk With a Camera) L - R: Geoff Bell – washtub bass, backing vocals. Meagan Michelle – washboard, backing vocals. Jesse Sendejas – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, accordion, banjo. Whitney Flynn – lead vocals, trumpet, ukulele. Show Me The Blueprints. by Days N Daze There’s DIY, then there’s DnD. Veteran “thrashgrass” band Days N Daze has spent more than a decade doing it themselves in a way few can match. From the beginning, Whitney Flynn (vocals/trumpet) and Jesse Sendejas (vocals/guitar) have forged their own path—playing acoustically so they’d have less gear and could perform anywhere, booking and promoting themselves, and self-recording and self-releasing their albums. Days N Daze —rounded out by Meagan Melancon on washboard and Geoff Bell on gutbucket—have done it all on their own, thank you. In the rare instances when they work with outsiders, they stick with people they know. Which is why, after a dozen hardscrabble years, they’ve joined Fat Wreck Chords for their eighth full-length, Show Me the Blueprints ., out 5/1/20. Sendejas calls the decision “terrifying.” Flynn describes it as “massively intimidating.” And they couldn’t be happier. “It’s been pretty awesome—just the positive reinforcement and the drive,” Flynn says. “They've really pushed us to go that extra mile, to get that confidence in ourselves, to keep going, keep making music.” “Keep going” may be Show Me the Blueprints. ’ biggest message. Its 11 tracks practically vibrate with anxious longing for something better—comfort, stability, acceptance, happiness—and the struggle to find it. Sendejas describes the album’s most prominent themes as addiction, “existential depression,” and appreciation. It’s all in “Flurry Rush,” which opens the album with Sendejas singing, “I try not to give a fuck about the little things.” Sendejas got sober last year “after basically being drunk for 14 years,” which had some unintended consequences. “A lot of what I had been suppressing for so l