Dazy Announces MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD Vol. 2 Comp With Seven New Songs: Hear “Beat Change”

Richmond rock 'n' roller James Goodson is a music publicist and, full disclosure, an occasional show buddy of mine. He's also the one-man banger factory behind Dazy, a project that has cranked out many, many excellent songs since Goodson started anonymously dropping Bandcamp tracks during the 2020 COVID summer. Back in 2021, a year before he became a Stereogum Artist To Watch, Goodson released MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs, his compilation of Dazy's first year. Today, he announces plans to follow it with MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD Vol. 2: 24 Songs From 2023-2026, another comp that features a bunch of tracks that we haven't heard yet. Thus far, Dazy has released exactly one proper album, 2022's OUTOFBODY. Since then, he has continued to crank out new songs, and they've mostly come out one or two at a time. (The last two, "BIG Problem" and "Gravity," dropped in May.) Along the way. Dazy has collaborated with people like Militarie Gun and Bodysync, and his own tracks have taken on more psychedelic trip-hop textures without losing the fuzzed-out '90s alt-pop immediacy of his early stuff. Seven of the tracks on MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD Vol. 2 are brand-new, including "Beat Change," ...