A Review of Rob Lalain’s New Single… ‘Day Or Night’
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I never expect much when pressing play… the inbox is relentless, and most things blur into one another before the first chorus arrives. But ‘Day Or Night’ didn’t do that. I stood out. It shined…
There’s something in the opening that immediately earns your attention — a melodic assurance that doesn’t announce itself loudly but simply settles, the way a well-arranged piece of music does when it knows exactly what it wants to say.
Rob Lalain is a self-taught musician who handles the bulk of his instrumentation himself, and you can hear the care in it. The guitar work — drawn from a setup that includes Epiphone Casino and Riviera electrics alongside Martin acoustics — has warmth without softness, a classic rock character that feels lived-in rather than retrofitted.
What strikes you first is the melody; Lalain has spoken openly about the influence of The Beatles and Paul McCartney on his songwriting, and ‘Day Or Night’ wears that lineage honestly — not as imitation, but as a genuine understanding of what makes a melody linger. It stays with you in the way only a handful of songs manage in any given month.
The track opens Rob Lalain’s new album The Way We Were, and as lead singles go, it does exactly what one should — it orients you within a world, gives you the temperature of the record, and makes you want to keep listening. For an artist who spent more than two decades away from recording before his return in 2020, there’s a remarkable sense of ease here. No desperation to prove anything. Just a song, doing what a good song does.
Some things find you at the right moment. This was one of them!
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