Track of the Day | Big Daisy | 'Go Outside'

Whether by accident, or ingenious design, Belfast's newest indie-surf-pop outfit Big Daisy make their sweeping entrance to the Irish music scene with perhaps the first 'quarantine banger' of this new age in modern human history.

The ironically titled 'Go Outside'  is a honey drenched pop single, taking brief detours through 60's surf on frontwoman Ciara King's ode to indoors. Lyrically, Big Daisy aren't afraid to verge on bleak, as King admits on the songs outro: "I never wanna go outside again / I'm never gonna go outside for as long as I live...". 

For all it's angst, 'Go Outside' retains a carefree breeze, unencumbered by the weight of it's lyric or the fragmented world it has been born into. You feel this song doesn't particularly care if you dance to it or not, which only serves to bolster the appeal.

Kings voice rarely doesn't feature, filling the space like a fifth instrument and allowing Big Daisy to bloom around her. It makes for a captivating pop-sway, a hark back to Phil Spector produced girl bands like The Ronettes or more recently Best Coast's sun-kissed debut 'Crazy For You'.

Big Daisy are for all intents and purposes a band built for Summer (look at those press shots!), but in 'Go Outside' they mark themselves as something more. A group for the moment.

Don't go outside. Stay indoors and turn it up.

Taylor Johnson