London-based psychedelic indie outfit DAAY step further into their own warped universe with Memories of the Future, released on November 21, 2025, via their own Yada Recordings. Led by songwriter Alex Barty-King, the five-track EP lands as a snapshot and a transmission, nostalgic and futuristic at once. Recorded at Love Electric Studios with Andy Hughes and later mixed and mastered by a heavyweight team, the project plays with the idea of multi-dimensional time, suggesting that the present moment is all we really have. Thereโs also a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi narrative running underneath it all, aliens landing on Earth, losing themselves in pop culture, and rediscovering purpose through rock music. Itโs playful, but thereโs real intent behind it.
The EP opens with โGuru Deva,โ immediately pulling you into DAAYโs psychedelic swirl. Fuzzy guitar riffs stack up over asynchronous drumming while a frequency synth ripples hypnotically above everything, like a signal looping in space. Meanwhile, horns bring a brassy bite. Barty-Kingโs sultry, charismatic vocal slides in with sensual ease, weary and pleading, as female harmonies hover softly in the background. When he sings about being tired and begs to not be left behind, the emotion comes in, invited through the cracks of vulnerability.
Later, โLive Out Your Lonely Lifeโ leans harder into melody and movement. Catchy beats underpin shimmering guitars that chime slowly in a dark, haunting glow. His voice soars freely here, suspended in light, unrestrained and urgent, reinforcing the EPโs core idea of existing fully in the now.
By the time โOne Moment (Outro)โ arrives, everything dissolves into atmosphere. Shimmering melodies glimmer over fuzzy textures and warm tones. Meanwhile, you can almost hear an ethereal voice singing behind the layers of music, her delicate voice merging with the music, like drifting out of orbit.
Overall, Memories of the Future throws genre out the airlock and trusts feeling over form. Itโs strange, groovy, and oddly comforting, like remembering something that hasnโt happened yet, and DAAY makes that paradox feel completely natural.
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Review by: Naomi Joan