Review Fix Exclusive: Charmer’s David Daignault Talks New LP, Tour And More

April 22, 2018 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with Charmer’s David Daignault (vocals/guitar), who discusses the band’s origin, creative process, new LP and upcoming tour.

About Charmer:

According to No Sleep founder Chris Hansen, Charmer is “the definition of Midwestern emo.” Expect all the things you loved about The Promise Ring,  Mineral and Texas is the Reason wrapped up in a nostalgia-inducing 22 minutes of twinkly guitars and heart-felt lyrics.

It’s no secret that emo is an often over-saturated genre which makes it difficult for bands to ever leave their hometown — but Charmer refuses to settle. After just 2 years, the band has already shared the stage with some of emo’s brightest stars including Pinegrove, Teen Suicide, and Dowsing. Charmer’s catchy guitar riffs and unique heart-bearing lyrics have set the band apart from an often overflowing genre. Charmer are hardly redundant, and rather celebrate our ’90s nostalgia in a new and exciting way.

Review Fix: How did the band get together?

David Daignault: Our current drummer Nick asked my old band that didn’t exist anymore to play a show with this brand new band at the time called Hot Mulligan. It was gonna be their first show ever. I had a couple songs laying around and got some musicians in town to learn them and we played the show. None of those members are in the band anymore but once we played that show I was encouraged to keep going and find a solidified line up.

Review Fix: How did I get involved in music?

Daignault: My senior year of high school my closest friend was getting really into music and asked if I was interested in learning how to play the bass so I could play in his band and I had never touched an instrument at that point in my life. That was 6 years ago now and it’s just kind of snowballed from that point.

Review Fix: What’s my creative process like?

Daignault: Idk it varies. For me to write something it usually takes some new chords or new life experience that I feel the need to write about. Anytime I force it I don’t get much gratification from it so I don’t really care to play the songs or bring them to my bandmates.

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

Daignault: This is a funny question. I usually just say loud and fast. I haven’t really come across a band that I would compare ourselves too.

Review Fix: How did it feel to work with Modern Baseball?

Daignault: It was a super gratifying experience. We went in with a collection of songs and Jake Ewald was super helpful with each step of the process. I learned quite a bit from an engineering perspective that I apply  with the bands I’ve personally recorded since then.

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

Daignault: I’d say we are significantly louder and faster live. We use a lot more overdrive than we do on our recordings and usually like to play our songs a little bit different to keep it more exciting for ourselves.

Review Fix: Goals for 2018?

Daignault: Spread our new LP to as many new listeners as we can!

Review Fix: Whats next?

Daignault: We’ll be touring April 13th through the 21st to support our new LP coming out on April 20th and then heavily again during the summer months. We’ll most likely write our next LP this year as well so it’s gonna be a fun year!

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14263 Articles
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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