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A bassist, songwriter, and recording artist raised in New Jersey and based in Los Angeles, Daryl Johns writes euphoric pop music “of a certain Irish quality.” His earnestly hopeful TV show theme music, bent over the knee of New Jersey “diner rock”—his “pop for victory”—his “champion pop,” his “sped up pop”—sometimes his sunny “bubble gum country” or his coke-eyes “motivational jazz fusion”—all find their home on the artist’s self-titled debut, Daryl Johns. The record presents these musical landing-points in a cohesive 14-track collection: sugar-powered anthems for the everyman.



















 Since moving westward to join the band of the reigning king of indie rock, Mac Demarco, Johns has found footing in a community of artists that includes Demarco, 70s soft-rock revival band Drugdealer, and various new wave jazz musicians such as Pedro Martins and Chris Fishman. Of course, born to jazz musician parents—and with many celebrating Johns in earlier years as the foremost jazz upright bassist of his generation (having created a unique sound so far eluding imitation)—Daryl is still known and beloved for his performance and recording work with Pat Metheny, Martins, Vijay Iyer, The Lemon Twigs, Macy Gray, and Immanuel Wilkins, to name only a handful. He has steadily built notoriety as a solo artist; and, with this debut, Daryl Johns, Johns offers, “I just made it cuz I like it. I just wanna have fun.” He continues, “Let’s have a good time.” Somehow, methinks we all will.  <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/7K48RaFMB6BhTLc0KspbTh?si=D2oA4Ir-Sqa0Cu_YxWYoNQ">https://open.spotify.com/artist/7K48RaFMB6BhTLc0KspbTh?si=D2oA4Ir-Sqa0Cu_YxWYoNQ</a> Presented by @philadelphiapsychedelic