Review Fix Exclusive: DayLeaf Talks Goals, Origin And More

Review Fix chats with DayLeaf’s Matt and Joe Costello to find out about their origin in music, goals for 2020 and more.

Review Fix: How did you get involved in music?

Joe: Since an early age, both of us have been jamming together, just for fun really. It’s never been something we’ve really put too much thought into.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Matt: It’s kind of a mess of a few different methods. What tends to happen is that we start with a fixed feel or vibe we want the piece to head towards (often coming from a riff or melody from guitar or a groove on drums) and then sort of react to idea as we work. The idea is just to explore as many directions as we come up with and to become more critical of them later on. Just being open to ideas, however random or seemingly incompatible it is.

Review Fix: What inspires you?

Joe: Listening to different different genres and seeing what ideas and be applied in different musical settings.

Review Fix: What does music mean to you?

Matt: A platform to create something that can be anything you want it be.

Review Fix: How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard you?

Joe: Groove driven sounds, looking to less common styles of music to make a form of alternative rock with a twist.

Review Fix: How are your live shows different from your studio work?

Matt: At the moment we are more of a studio band- we aim to play live in the future though when we expand our catalogue.

Review Fix: What inspired your latest single?

Joe: We wanted to streamline some of our more left field work, whilst still managing to maintain some of that energy.

Review Fix: What are your goals for the rest of 2020?

Matt: To finish an album and grow our audience.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Joe: New music!

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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