Daniel Jönsson started to work with his project Danish Daycare already in 2005, but the following years were occupied with his involvement in Emerald Park, as a keyboard player and guitarist. But last year he spent the time necessary to complete the production of the album “A Story of Hurt”, which was released in the late autumn of 2009.

I can find references to indie bands of the nineties and the 00-ties, but above all I get a lot of eighties feelings from this record. Well, in the sound and the ambience in itself and from bands like The Cure, The Church and  New Order. I get reminded of Alan Parsons Project in the grand ballad “Never Change Never Fade”, Pet Shop Boys take a peek in “Red Dead Flowers” and U2 in “She Said a Lot”. It’s a varied album with a changing degree of electronica- and guitar background, with an overall atmosphere containing a certain amount of darkness, and an album that grows with each listen.

You can meet Danish Daycare on Myspace and on his Bandcamp page, where you can listen to the entire album “A Story of Hurt”. If you’re in Malmö on the 6th of May, you have the opportunity to see them live at Kick-Start.

Here are two songs from “A Story to Hurt” to listen to and to download:

A Purpose to My Sins
Never Change Never Fade