Program Council is proud to present our third installment of Behind the Music w/ Dayglow. Take a look behind the artists inspirations and music making process.

This live event will take place virtually on April 16 at 7 p.m. MDT and is free to all CU Boulder students, only. The link for the event will be emailed to all attendees, please make sure to use your colorado.edu email to ensure access. Register here

Picture it: A soft-focus shot of a bungalow on a leafy residential street. The single-story house is painted robin’s egg blue and there’s a young man in a plaid suit standing outside the front door in his bare feet. He waves at the camera as the title appears across the lower third of the screen: Harmony House. It stars the lovable one-man-band Sloan Struble, and though you’ve never watched this TV show before, it feels comforting. With that wave, Struble invites you into his world — and his new album.

Struble, who records music as Dayglow, explains that his sophomore album began life as an imaginary sitcom. He’d begun writing new music after the release of his runaway 2018 debut Fuzzybrain, and found himself drawn to piano-driven soft rock from the late ’70s and early ’80s. He was also watching a lot of Cheers, the long-running sitcom that took the viewer to a place where, as the theme song goes, “everybody knows your name.” “At the very beginning, I was writing a soundtrack to a sitcom that doesn't exist,” he says. The music would generate a kind of impossible nostalgia for something that had never been real.

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