Daffo, the moniker of Los Angeles-based artist Gabi Gamberg, shares “Dagger Song,” the new single from their forthcoming debut album, Where the Earth Bends, due September 26 via Concord Records. The song arrives today with a visualizer by John Howe.
“Someone I was very close with for a long time decided to stop speaking to me, and I wrote this song about our matching dagger tattoos and about mourning our relationship overall,” Daffo explains. “‘Dagger Song’ was written in one go, but it’s a nice example of letting myself sit in my feelings rather than intellectualizing or analyzing them from a distance.”
With a poetic specificity that cuts right to the heart, Daffo speaks an unfiltered truth about all that sets them apart from the wider world, confronting everything from shame and self-loathing to misplaced affection and the chaos of living with an overactive brain. Where the Earth Bends, produced and mixed by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck, Cat Power), is a one-of-a-kind coming-of-age album that finds powerful catharsis in painful confession.
