Up-and-Coming Producer Odd Couple Shares Uplifting "DayDream"
Milwaukee-born, Chicago-based producer Odd Couple grabbed our attention a few weeks ago with "Me Time." The cut featured bars and vocals from the O'My's, Kweku Collins and Jack Red—but the star was the beat. Grabbing that amazing barbershop-style skit from 2 Chainz's major label debut and adding a slew of joyful orchestration, "Me Time" hit instant smash status for us after the second spin.
Now Odd Couple's got his Chatterbox album on the way, which he's been cooking up in the studio with a number of emerging artists for close to two years. Today we're premiereing "DayDream," an Odd Couple-only cut that fits its name well.
"'DayDream' really came from me more or less envisioning that breakthrough moment where the trials make sense, the work pays off, where I can just say, 'It was worth it,'" Odd Couple tells Fuse. "And because that concept is pretty personal to me, I wanted to do everything myself, and make it as big and dynamic and individual as I could."
The final result's full of positivity-radiating pianos, montage-friendly drums, sensational sprinkles of guitars, sample-bits and strings. "I've gotten so much better at taking an idea or a feeling I've experienced and expressing it sonically," Odd Couple says. In the end, "DayDream" sounds like nothing out there right now; it sounds like OC:
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