Who is GoodDay?
Article and Cover Photo by Kaliana Castillo
GoodDay is a new and upcoming electronic music team that started their work together in 2019, where they met each other at an art university in Florida. While only focusing on releasing singles in the past, their first album is finally coming out this year. Working together as a team has caused them to face challenges but Chase Mormur and Liam Pammer both convey they wouldn't have it any other way. In their upcoming album "perfect imperfections" they focus on the beauty of imperfections in creating music. It is well known that most musicians have a habit of overanalyzing each aspect of their music. GoodDay has expressed they find beauty in the concept of questioning when is a song ever fully complete in their upcoming album. Thriving off of spontaneous decisions and finding appreciation in multiple different art styles GoodDay's new album is not like any other.
How was GoodDay created?
During the interview process Pammer went into detail on how he came up with the idea of GoodDay. He explained the idea to start a team with Mormur popped in his mind while in the shower. Both of them agreed to focus on creating music that allows them to express creative freedom others can enjoy. They then decided on the name "GoodDay" due to the fact no matter what kind of day they had it would always turn into a good one when creating music together. The photo attached above is from the first day they came up with the concept of creating an electronic music team under the name "GoodDay" in March 2019 on a small whiteboard in Mormur's previous apartment.
How did you guys decide to finally release your first real album?
Pammer: We've been playing the singles game for a long time. We've been sitting on these songs for awhile, and kind of decided to just release them because like how can someone decide when a song is finally finished, what makes a song really done?
Mormur: Just get it off our plate, its hard to catch the vibe I had creating a song going back on it, maybe one out of three times I can but once I start creating a song its hard to finish it another day because the feelings I had when I started just aren't the same.
How do you guys decide when you want to create songs together?
M: It just kind of happens. If we decide like okay Tuesday 8pm we'll sit down and create a song, most likely it'll never come out.
P: Yeah it just kind of happens, I mean its like I'll get this feeling where I cant stay away from a song.
Do you guys create all the songs together?
M: I'd say on this album half of the songs are me, half of the songs are [Pammer]'s.
P: Yeah there's like only two songs we created together.
Ease Up: So you guys don't actually make all the music together?
M: Not necessarily. I mean [Pammer] is almost always in the room when I'm creating music and he'll add his guitar in it or just his energy in the room helps a lot.
P: I agree. I mean we voice our opinions on each other's work but don't necessarily make them all together.
EUM: Would you say you guys both contribute to GoodDay equally?
M: Yeah I'd say so. I mean I think I'm more of the creative aspect of being like "Hey [Pammer] check out this Hawaii style weird thing that I don't know if anyone will listen to but it could be sick".
P: I think we're both pretty 50/50. Id say there's things I do more, there's things [Mormur] does more. I think I push really hard on the music, like I'll be like lets get this thing together and put this music out.
What are some artists you guys look up to?
P: John Summit, Swedish House Mafia, Metallica, and just a lot of different artists. Id say Led Zeppelin started my interest in playing guitar.
M: Seven Lions, Skrillex, and Turnover.
How do you guys decide what vocals you want to use in your tracks?
M: I can usually hear something under it and envision how it will turn out.
P: It's usually different every time. Sometimes we make songs with our close friends (Bobby DeMario, Drew Taylor, and more) other times we find vocals online.
I had the amazing opportunity to shoot GoodDay's first real album cover. GoodDay explained to me they wanted to create a piece of artwork that represented their music. "Scattered, perfect, but imperfect" are the words Mormur told me were his vision for the cover. What started as a normal Monday night, left GoodDay covered in multiple different art mediums from the process of creating their own backdrop for their album.
If you were to describe GoodDay in just 3 words what would they be?
M: Positivity, authentic, and nonjudgemental.
P: Freedom, love, and happiness.
What is your favorite song on your upcoming album and why?
M: Definitely Jaded, the song made me cry and breakdown. It made me realize a lot of things about my life. It just flows in my mind, it's like I'm not listening to it and my body is just fully intaking it.
P: It's hard to choose but probably Strobe. It feels like my energy right now. Its like my thoughts in a song and feels super authentic to me.
How do you guys come up with song names?
M: Kind of random, whatever comes to my mind or what I feel. I just put that as the title.
P: I like to choose song titles quickly because I've learned I never really regret my choices if
they're made quick and not overthought.
What is beautiful about music to you?
P: I think it's crazy because like before you made it, it never existed. I think how a song comes
into existence is just beautiful to me. It's just frequencies in the air and you can totally be moved by it. You can feel it's touch without being touched physically.
M: The energy of it all, how my feelings can be transported to someone else and they can feel it
too off of just a device.
How do you guys find inspiration?
M: Oftentimes things I see on YouTube. I'll be browsing and I'll see someone break down one of my favorite songs in ways I've never heard before so I like to put my own twist on that process. Also girls I've known. I believe women inspire a lot of my music. I appreciate what I've learned from them.
P: Honestly from any experience like from having a fun time with a cute girl, traveling, etc. I take my good and bad experiences and make it into music of how I felt in that moment.
So you guys make music off of your feelings?
M: Totally, 100%. When I listen back to songs sometimes I break down. It's crazy realizing what I was feeling at that time in my life.
P: The frequency you hear is what we were feeling at the time, always.
How did you guys come up with the concept of your logo? Is there any meaning behind it?
M: Our logo is actually a soundwave. To me it represents all the emotions in between happy and sad, they come in waves.
P: Yeah I agree with [Mormur]. Even our colors have a meaning. People associate yellow with happiness, blue with sadness. The green in the middle kind of represents all those emotions in between to me.
GoodDays album ‘perfect imperfections’ is releasing September 1st, 2022. You can listen now on all streaming platforms