{"id":876,"date":"2025-06-27T18:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/?p=876"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:22:41","slug":"effins-daydreams-album-rewires-bass-music-through-the-circuitry-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/effins-daydreams-album-rewires-bass-music-through-the-circuitry-of-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Effin's “Daydreams” Album Rewires Bass Music Through the Circuitry of Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

With his masterful new album, Daydreams<\/em>,\u00a0Effin<\/a>\u00a0shreds his flashbacks, warps them and threads them back together with a palette of faded melodies and sawtoothed basslines.<\/p>\n

Rather than offering a safe retreat into vintage aesthetics, the album uses memory as a conduit for Effin’s wholly singular sound.<\/p>\n

“<\/em>Going all in on a concept such as daydreaming forced me to completely immerse myself in the theme, a challenge that ended up redefining the Effin sound and imagery for this era,” he explained in a press release. “Just like a dream, it pulls you in and throws your imagination for a thrill ride.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the opening seconds of its titular track, a collaboration with NGHTMRE<\/a>, he sets the tone with deceptive sweetness. Airy vocals and gauzy pads swirl until a jarring lyric (“my daydreams, it’s more like nightmares”) tears the arrangement wide open.<\/p>\n

“Dreams Come True” doesn\u2019t blink either, pulsing with the confidence of an artist who\u2019s crawled through self-doubt and come out with something solid in-hand. \u201cBringing Me Down\u201d sharpens this contrast further, its delicate intro lurching into a bassline that snarls without losing musicality.<\/p>\n

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While most of the album is a solo expedition, \u201cUps and Downs” finds Effin linking up with EDM.com Class of 2025<\/a> artist Tape B, with whom he bends retro radio fuzz and\u00a0tinctures of saxophones\u00a0into a woozy trip through tasteful doses of each producer’s unmistakable sound design.<\/p>\n

What makes Daydreams<\/em> so effective isn\u2019t genre subversion for its own sake, but a tight grip on mood and texture across all 12 tracks. There\u2019s no sense of a random ID dump here. Even at its most experimental, the album never loses sight of its through-line, a kind of sun-dappled yearning that glows around the edges of every beat.<\/p>\n

You can listen to Daydreams <\/em>below.<\/p>\n

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Spotify: <\/strong>spoti.fi\/3lSkJVq<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With his masterful new album, Daydreams,\u00a0Effin\u00a0shreds his flashbacks, warps them and threads them back together with a palette of faded melodies and sawtoothed basslines. Rather than offering a safe retreat into vintage aesthetics, the album uses memory as a conduit for Effin’s wholly singular sound. “Going all in on a concept such as daydreaming forced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}