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Filled with fast-paced melodic rock n' punk the Dollyrots new album Daydream Explosion is out on Orchard Records. "The couple records before this one (Barefoot & Pregnant and Whiplash Splash) were written and recorded while I was pregnant with our two kids, so I think we were doing a lot of growing and changing and worrying. This album feels a lot stronger and more confident overall. We’re in a really cool season of life as a couple and musical partners and I think that shines through in the music. We were about one-third of the way through writing when my dad passed away in December though, and that did throw us a bit of a curve ball… he died December 21 and we had flights and studio time booked starting January 23. More than half the album was written in the few weeks after he died and I’m still not really sure how. We’re a close family and he had been ill for a while, but it was still shocking and hurts every day. But in those weeks I felt a little out of body or something. Luis [Cabezas, guitars, vocals and Ogden’s husband], who was also grieving of course, helped pull me through and encouraged me to try to write every night after we put the kids to bed and we did make music most of those nights. Sometimes I just curled up though. I think the emotional space we were in opened us up to some music magic though. We just kept getting ideas out of nowhere and, although we were sad, the music was a release and celebration of life and the experiences to come. There is some nostalgia for sure but there is also confidence about where we are headed." - Kelly Ogden (The Dollyrots)