If you’re anything like me, you probably started the day by recognizing the start of a new work week had indeed arrived and then immediately began shaking your fists at the sky in anger. Monday is rarely anyone’s favorite day, and from what I have seen firsthand it feels safe to say it’s the one day of the week some people outright hate. I guess to them the arrival of the work week symbolizes the end of their quote/unquote freedom, and as a result they head into the office/factory/restaurant/store with a negative outlook already on their mind. This leads to bad attitudes, which only makes the experience of being at work worse, and for some reason it also seems to make time slow to a crawl. We’re not about that life, and we hope this post can do the same you that the song contained within it did for us.
Diamond Youth have been considered a ‘buzzworthy’ band for the better part of the last half decade, but it isn’t until this very week that their debut full-length album arrives in stores through our longtime clients/friends at Topshelf Records. Their sound is hard to nail down, but it’s largely a fuzz-heavy affair, with pop-sensibilities and instantly relatable lyrics buried amongst the wall of sound delivered on every single track. The song featured above, “Thought I Had It Right,” is the first song off nothing matters that hit me like a baseball bat swung straight at my chest. I can clearly remember finding myself unable to continue typing as it began to pour through my headphones in mid-April, and every time I have heard it sense the same inability to do just about anything other than admire its craftsmanship has overcome me. I hope it has the same impact on you.
Now you may be thinking something along the lines of how a song so good it prevents you from doing work is the probably the opposite of what you need on Monday morning, but I disagree. The reason “Thought I Had It Right” stops me in my tracks is because when I hear it I know I am capable of something more than whatever I am doing in that moment. This song is so good is inspires me to demand more from myself, and in turn I find myself working harder to do my job as well as Diamond Youth pen melancholy songs. What we do is not the same by any stretch of the imagination, but to pretend like we are unable to influence one another is a very narrow-minded way to think. Inspiration, at least from my experience, is most often found in things whose creation you do not fully understand. When you encounter a song, a book, a painting, or anything else created by someone with a unique perspective on the world you can feel the passion that went into its creation. You feed on it, and in turn attempt to create something equally appealing through doing whatever it is you do.
This week, try and find something so incredibly well made it stops you in your tracks. Find something that, when you see it, causes you to rethink the way you have been doing your business. That is where inspiration lies, and it’s from that interaction that your best ideas will be born. You should also buy the Diamond Youth album because, well, it’s freaking spectacular. Click here for more details.
