Tuxis Giant by Omari Spears
With their new album You Won’t Remember This out in just two weeks, Tuxis Giant return with one final single – the fan-favourite “Days” – accompanied by a brand new music video. Written during the slow, spiralling months of the pandemic, “Days” is an ode to the in-between: that soft, liminal space between work and rest, grief and magic, numbness and joy.
A brisk and buoyant two-minute track, “Days” fuses the weary with the whimsical. “At the end of the day, I put my apron away / Then, at night, all the spirits come out to party”, sings Matt O’Connor (they/them), tracing the song’s dreamlike mood with gentle guitars and a ghostly vocal refrain. Where other songs on the record turn inward, “Days” reaches out, a hand extended, a reminder not to lose sight of each other in the daily blur. “When the days beat you down, don’t forget about me.”
The song was inspired in part by the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki, especially their depiction of labour as something both beautiful and burdensome. Like Spirited Away with a guitar, “Days” imagines the invisible world that stirs just beyond the end of the shift. Playful, strange, and quietly spiritual, it taps into the album’s central thesis: even the smallest moments contain their own sacred weight.
Frontperson Matt O’Connor explains the inspiration, “I originally wrote this years ago, scrapped it, and then reintroduced to the band. It came after watching Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo for the first time. It’s about the tough, cyclical relationship between work and play, which is something Miyazaki seems to embody: a hard-nosed work ethic that produces the most whimsical things imaginable. It’s our favorite one to play live.”
The accompanying music video for “Days” is a beautifully animated piece by friend and frequent collaborator of Tuxis Giant, Louis Roe, that puts the band centre stage of its narrative. The video is also natural extension of the You Won’t Remember This universe, with Roe nodding to the album’s previous two music video’s. Characters, colours, and butterfly wings taken from Enne Goldstein’s animated video for “Silver Cup” feature heavily, while brightly coloured, transformative, geometric shapes lifted from bassist Fenn Macon’s Three.js animated music video for “Huey” are also referenced throughout the video.
Speaking on the music video, director Louis said: “For me, the ceaseless, forward momentum of “Days” evokes the timeless journey – one day after another, and all that entails. I liked the idea of centering Matt, Fenn, Eleanor and James in that journey, especially at this moment when James is moving on from Tuxis. The band has evolved through so many versions of itself over the years…I wanted to pay homage to that transformation that naturally occurs even when it feels like you’re doing the same thing over and over, the kind of growth that emerges from sustained practice. It also felt right to reference the videos Fenn and Enne made for “Huey” and “Silver Cup,” respectively – they came up with such brilliant visuals for those songs and I thought it might be poetic to tie it all together in the final sequence for “Days.”
Watch the music video for “Days” here:
“Days” follows previous singles “Last Laugh”, “Silver Cup”, and “Huey”, which explored themes of self-medication, gender euphoria, and communal resilience. Together, they make up the emotional landscape of You Won’t Remember This – a record about memory, transformation, and the fragile magic that binds us.
You Won’t Remember This is out August 15th via Worry Bead Records.
You Won’t Remember This artwork
You Won’t Remember This tracklisting
Simple Days
Holy Water
Days
Trying to be Numb
Heart Surgery
Language I Understand
Silver Cup
Family Funeral
Huey
Little Secrets of the Heart
Last Laugh
Reasons
What’s Going On in Your Mind
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