Dayglow's new song, "Can I Call You Tonight?" will trap you in the fog of late-night introspection, lingering somewhere in the balance between closeness and separation that is about to take a direct line to your heart. Fuzzybrain's lead single, "Can I Call You Tonight?" is an indie-pop dreamscape clad in nostalgia, spinning with effervescent melodies, warm synths, and sun-drenched guitar riffs so infectious you can almost feel it whisk you away to where emotions run free and neon-lit phone calls still matter.
Dayglow, the musical project of the Texas-born artist Sloan Struble, has a rare talent for distilling the peaks and valleys of youth into kaleidoscopic pop euphoria. With "Can I Call You Tonight?", his ear for the disconnect of the digital age, that slight pause, the fear of miscommunication, the need for clarity. "Can I Call You Tonight?" strums with a specific wistful energy, its chorus soaring with Struble's earnest, honeyed vocals as he poses the all-too-relatable question: "Can I call you tonight? Try to make up my mind."
Written entirely in his bedroom with a DIY ethos, "Can I Call You Tonight?" shimmering production and undeniable effortlessness give it an intimate but almost cinematic appeal, a John Hughes movie with audio tracks. Struble's painstaking process is evident throughout, as he went through nearly 30 final mixes to pinpoint the right dreamlike quality of the song.
With "Can I Call You Tonight?", Dayglow establishes himself as one of indie pop's most luminous young voices, showing that even in uncertainty, there is beauty and maybe even a little hope on the other side of the line.