WL//WH Premiere DAYFLOWER
“Young Sun” cover artwork
Leicester, UK-based experimental DIY dream pop ensemble Dayflower, led by Alex Clemence (vocals, lyrics) and David Dhonau (guitars, synths, beats, sampling), roll out the Official Video for “Young Sun,” co-written and produced with Leicester based electronic producer Tom Young (guitar, synth, drum machine), with assistance of Johnny McJohnston (additional synths and beats) and Lakeem Rose (additional production + processing).
Relesed one year ago as a single, and later the opening track of last Summer’s second album, “COMFORT”, via Sunday Records, the song has received its deserved kaleidoscopic visual interpretation by dd, somehow marking the end of a phase and going ahead with the start of new recordings.
When Dayflower released “Young Sun” in April 2025, they described it as “a fizzy rush of dayglo synths and buzzsaw guitar… like a cute shoegaze band bursting out of a dusty games console.”
One year on, the band have built a vivid visual world for the track, one that feels like a powered-up speed run through an 8-bit bonus stage. It’s a perfect match for a song driven by momentum, sudden drops, and constantly shifting sonic textures.
A whimsical song that elevates the listener into the band’s dreamlike, heady, and surreal kaleidoscopic sound world, “beyond the blue horizon, far above the clouds,” citing, like in its esoteric lyrics, seemingly provoked by singer Alex Clemence‘s dream of the Beatles‘ “Magical Mystery Tour,” as a relief and escape from the material earth’s misery.
Inspired by the rush of colors and landscapes experienced in yesteryear’s console games, “Young Sun” sparks off urgent tinny drum patterns and feathery guitar strums, washed in swooshing, fuzzed-out textures, layered with fluorescent, darting synth breezes, bittersweetly quivering over wandering heartfelt playful vocals, fading in and out, haloed in an echoing, ecstatic chorus, swept with a wistful sense of nostalgia.
The Official Video, filmed and edited by dd himself, uses light, texture, time, color and space to transform stacks of busy urban traffic, esoteric illustrations, geometric shapes and computer configurations into abstract thought forms. But the stream of consciousness is not only a trippy blur-reality, as the Young Sun face drawing by Matt Rogerson, and live Dayflower band footage by Risa Konishi, peak through to bring moments of clarity.
For Dayflower’s first live outing since the release of the “COMFORT” LP on Chicago’s Sunday Records, they welcome London-based dream pop singer-songwriter Marina Yozora to Duffy’s Bar in Leicester on May 15, 2026.
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