Dizzy Days “Take My Heart” Review
Written by Emma Newbury
Dizzy Days take the words right out of our mouth with new single “Take my Heart”. The first official tune of the group’s discography has set the bar very high for the band’s career, jet setting the all-women all-funk four-piece outfit into the eyes of the Brisbane music and media scene seemingly overnight. The song’s debut was met with numerous fellow Brisbane creatives supporting the song via Instagram, and the song has already amassed just shy of 10,000 listens within a month of its release, so before even listening you know you’re in store for a good time.
“Take My Heart” is a situationship met with candied synths and discotheque undertones that altogether create a real lush poppy sound. Think of Brisbane duo WIIGZ having a baby with Dua Lipa, and out of the cosmic collision emerges the girl group of your dreams, and there you have Dizzy Days. The song introduces us to a clear-cut bass riff oozing funkiness, orbited by a twinkling synth. The vocals pulse through to set the scenery of an on and offrelationship – “I was dreaming of forever, and you were thinking never-ever”. Singer Aisling O’Byrne backs this up in an interview to say that the tune was written in a period where she was living this scenario and wasn’t really sure what was happening or what the boundaries were, as what most 20-somethings have experienced in the biosphere that is modern dating.
Like a rocket preparing for take-off, the pre-chorus sets up the tension of the struggle highlighted by the vocalist, which erupts into an atmosphere of colour highlighted by disco strings and freckles of percussion all wrapped within the ever-seductive bassline. “Take my heart and tear me to pieces, let me go” The vocals call out, begging the receiver to make up their mind or cry over their loss.
We had a chat to the girls, and funnily enough “Take My Heart” was made completely out of chance - “we needed a song to complete our 45 minute live set. A few days out from a show, Aisling was playing around and had the idea for the bass line which she then recorded onto her computer as a synth bass line and the song grew from there! We pretty much had it written in a few days, fleshed out the arrangement together.” The piece fell together almost seamlessly, with the whole thing tied together by producer Sam Woods DMing the band offering to work on the production. “It was pretty serendipitous” the band said.
The Something Different team were lucky enough to catch the girls live at their “Take My Heart” single launch last Saturday, which oozed of neon, funk and excitement. Some amazing performances were had by Rink and Ruby Jo, before the shaggy haired cool girls of Dizzy Days - Aisling O'Byrne (vocals), Bridgette Dabinett (bass), EJ Carey (guitar), and Mikaela Swan (drums) emerged. The band chugged through some through a number of tunes, saving their debut song for last as the crowd pulsated along to the voluptuous bass and catchy drums.
With their butterfly-esque eclosion onto the Brisbane music scene and into our ears, the only question to ask next would be: Who is Dizzy Days? And what more can we expect? “Dizzy Days really want to be something different (fitting), we want to pave the way for other women in music to follow and even out that ‘female:male ratio’ on the stage. We want to be taken seriously as musicians which can be a little scary to be honest. We also want raise the important questions and with our future releases, make people have conversations with themselves that they may not have had otherwise. Plus, how fun that we can make people DANCE!! We are happy with that!”
Stay tuned to hear more about what 2022 has in store for Dizzy Days, as they hint at more opportunities to catch them live, as well as more work in the studio coming soon *wink wink*.
