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Tāmaki Makaurau based indie four-piece Daffodils today unveil their new EP Stay The Night both a confident, reflective and melodic collection of five songs cementing the band as one of our brightest young talents. Alongside the EP, the band are stoked to share the chaotic video for latest single and title track Stay The Night.

Directed by Oscar Keys and shot in Grey Lynn Auckland, the video captures a wild house party, and a night that ebbs and flows as highs take hold and give way. Reflective of the song itself, it alludes to youthful abandon, with scant regard for tomorrow and excitement about where the night could go. Stay The Night is a seductive, almost bashful question whilst simultaneously serving as a desperate plea to avoid being alone.

Lead singer Theo Salmon filled Stay The Night, with the biggest sounds he could find “I love this song, it’s supposed to really lean into making you feel like the main character, like a driving at night with the windows down kind of feeling”

He continues “It’s about that time, right before a break up, where you can feel both of you drifting apart, and just desperately wanting for that person to look at you in the same way again.”

Produced by Jol Mulholland, the Stay The Night EP has dynamic themes of growing and changing. Clocking in at five songs, each track captures different stages of a relationship and how those in them evolve over time. It’s honest. Another theme for Theo.

“I’ve always struggled with bottling things up, and nothing will distance you more from someone you love than not being honest with them about how you’re feeling.”

In describing How Do You Know? he says “ I found myself stuck in a cycle of drinking to stop myself from having to think about things that I was struggling with ……. It’s about that unwillingness to pull yourself away from a comfort that lets you avoid the things you need to focus on, and how easy it is to get stuck in that cycle.”

WATCH: Stay The Night by Daffodils

In Every Once In A While Theo Salmon questions the dismissiveness of people when dealing with mental health, often reducing big issues to small solutions ‘just go outside’ Theo sings with a hint of frustration in his voice.

Never, Happier is a bitter sweet love song dealing with a breakup, and the difficulty of seeing an ex move on and be happy after you break up.

The final track Something I’d Do is stripped back, just Theo and acoustic guitar. There’s a vulnerability in his voice as he grapples with his past and how it defines him.

“It’s about lying awake every night, thinking about every single mistake you’ve ever made, and coming to terms with the fact that you change and grow with time”.

Theo describes writing the song as therapeutic “ it helped me to understand more about why I spend so much time dwelling on the past and focusing on things that make me feel shitty, instead of giving myself time to feel proud of who I’ve become and things that I’ve done well.”

Daffodils can add this new Stay The Night EP to the list of things they’ve done well.

Having just played a sold out Tuning Fork show with pals There’s A Tuesday, this Saturday, Daffodils and There’s A Tuesday with special guest Wiri Donna play a huge EP release show at San Fran in Wellington. Final tickets are available at undertheradar.co.nz. Fans throughout the rest of Aotearoa fear not! News of a full tour is imminent.

DAFFODILS

Stay The Night

EP Out Now
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Photo Credit: Tom Grut

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