The Ninth Wave - Happy Days!
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KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
We’re continuing DJ Abbie’s week of songs leading up to World Goth Day on May 22. Despite what the name may imply, Glasgow band The Ninth Wave’s “Happy Days!” is not a happy affair. This is ‘Goth Day,’ we’re talking about here – what did you expect?
“’Happy Days!’ is a song of ups and downs,” the band told DIY Mag earlier this month. “At its core, the lyrics shine a torchlight on the murky highs and lows of life.”
You can feel this in the driving pulse of the record. Waves of dark synthesizer rumbles under vocalist/guitarist Hadyn Park-Patterson’s guttural growl. The sputtering drums and spacious pauses make the climactic moments feel mammoth in size. All to say, it’s a happy day for goths with this incendiary track.
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| 0:00.0 | The Half people. We're all thinking the same thing. |
| 0:23.0 | Big time, I'll see, I'm sure I'm there. |
| 0:30.0 | Where we started, where we started is |
| 0:35.0 | Start is where we left |
| 0:37.0 | I miss my bruises and I feel like I am losing my positioning |
| 0:48.0 | Myself is my positioning my self-destruction in the guise of my devotion I exist in. And have you ever wanted to ever wanted to know. Oh happy days, happy days. |
| 1:14.0 | the ones where I can bring myself to say, |
| 1:18.0 | in time, I'll see, I'm sure, I'm sure I'm there but I let my eyes shut for the way almost nothing |
| 1:29.9 | there I miss my bruises and I feel like I am losing my possessioning |
| 1:40.0 | my self destruction and the guise of my dysfunction I existed. |
| 1:45.0 | Have you ever wanted to know? |
| 1:49.0 | Have you ever jumped when you said the walk? The world goes up us come down and I suppose the other way. |
| 1:55.0 | And I suppose the other way. Oh, I'm going to be. I miss my bruises and I feel like I am losing my position in. |
| 2:37.0 | My self-destruction, and guys are like unfortunate |
| 2:43.7 | guys I'm like unfortunate I existin. |
| 2:47.7 | And have you ever wanted to know? Have you ever joked about you say? |
| 2:55.0 | The what goes up must come down and I suppose |
| 3:01.0 | the other way. |
| 3:04.0 | What goes up must come dance. |
| 3:07.0 | And I suppose it's the other way. You're going to be. you're |
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