First Day of Spring’s Art Rock Post-Punk Single “PARTYZEIT!” is a Song About Facing One’s Fears and Personal Failings With Integrity and Creativity

First Day of Spring, photo courtesy the artist

First Day of Spring on its driving and eclectic single “PARTYZEIT!” sounds a little like Happy Mondays if that band was inspired more by Krautrock. But the song’s music video and its seemingly joyous collage of aesthetics reflects a song that combines melody, strong rhythms and what might be described as urgent textures. The vocals echo ever so slightly like one’s voice being reflected back at one inside a small room in natural and immediate reverb. The two vocalists take passages and appear to occupy visual spaces in the video like they’re having to face the dark side of their own fantasies, dreams and aspirations as surreal and oddly benevolent nightmares. It wonderfully doesn’t fit in with a narrow genre of music with layers of Gary Numan-esque synth pop, Fall-esque left field funk and like they definitely listened to a bit of Parquet Courts. Watch the video for “PARTYZEIT!” on YouTube and follow First Day of Spring at the links below.