Review Fix Exclusive: Delilah Daybreaks’ Doyle Alexander Talks Origin In Music, Confessional And More

April 2, 2021 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

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Review Fix chats with Doyle Alexander, guitarist, and singer of Delilah Daybreaks, who discusses the band’s creative process and more.

Review Fix: How did the project start?

Doyle Alexander: We started back in 2015 originally just me and Mycah and another guy who was originally supposed to play drums. Mycah and I had sorta a falling out with him after it seemed like he was really holding us back, and the vibe just wasn’t there with him anymore so we got Owen. I had jammed with Owen for a year or two before we had even started Delilah Daybreaks, and I knew he was a cool guy so it just seemed kinda natural to have him as the drummer.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Alexander: The song writing process has changed up a bit recently with the stuff we are currently working on but, back when we were writing [Redacted] it would be me writing a skelton of a song with basic chords and most of the lyrics. Then I would bring it to the guys and we would build it from there, at least most of the time. Nowadays, we try to write as much as we possibly can together just to make sure that we’re all happy with the final product, and on top of that writing with all three of us together has always resulted in the best stuff in the past.

Review Fix: What’s your standout song? How was it written?

Alexander: In my opinion, that song would be Confessional. That was written kinda the same way as the other stuff on [Redacted]. The biggest difference between Confessional and the other songs on the EP, is that Confessional started with just lyrics and when I heard it in my head it was almost exactly like you hear it on the recording.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2021?

Alexander: We want to try to write the best songs that we have written, and hopefully connect with more people.

Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?

Alexander: I want it to connect with them, I want our songs to potentially help people when they feel alone. I want our music to help remind people that no matter how bad shit is right now, it will get better if you keep putting your best foot forward everyday.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Alexander: We have something we are announcing very soon that is going to be very cool, and we are currently writing a new EP that should come out later in the year.

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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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