A'ight.
See my thoughts are that on Brand New's earlier releases, the lyrics and songs convey the image of a young man growing up and dealing with the emotional burden that is everyday life.
Each release shows a maturation of the band, yet before Daisy each was glazed with a degree of optimism that things would improve, with each album signalling a decline in that optimism and possible youthful naivety.
By the time Daisy rolls around, this optimism has gone. The youthful naivety heard in earlier records such as Your Favourite Weapon has gone.
It's a sign of growing up, a sign of someone who can now see the world, see his emotions for what they were. Someone who has now given up hope.
There's no optimism. It's bleak, it's broken. They're beyond the stage where they can assure themselves things will get better.
Daisy is that final call for salvation, a bleak, broken record knowing things will never return to the simplicity life once was where it was all about girls taking semesters abroad or about how one would comprise a mixtape full of Smiths song in an attempt to prove to his youthful self he were not alone.
Daisy's given up on the past and is looking at the present and the bleak future.
That's what I think about Daisy as a record.
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