![]() ![]() But it also doubles as the title of Boy Golden's debut album. The Church of Better Daze is a real institution Duncan founded, complete with a website where you can fill out a form to join the congregation. Better daze aheadĪbout six months after he began writing songs as Boy Golden, another important piece arrived: the Church of Better Daze. If you can look deeply into something dark, you, too, are capable of the opposite: looking outward at the beauty that surrounds the darkness. "I find that the bigger you zoom out of an issue, the easier it is to feel some sort of joy around it," he expands. Boy Golden, he says, brings together "all my favourite parts of myself, without the human insecurities." This change in perspective is fuelled by the advice he told me earlier. That easygoing, breezy attitude, it turns out, was what was missing all along in his solo work. "And then, out of that, came these songs that felt a lot more like me. "I was doing a lot better mentally and I was taking care of myself more, creatively and spiritually," he explains. It was during this time, when his attention was spent on other artists' music, that the idea of Boy Golden started emerging. Instead, he took time to work with other artists, touring and mixing records because focusing on his own art felt too stressful.ĭuration 4:32 Boy Golden performs 'KD & Lunch Meat' on CBC Music's The Intro. Those oversized, oftentimes sombre and heartbroken emotions took a lot out of Duncan, and after seeing that project not take off the way he wanted it to, he took his exhaustion as a sign to hit pause. "I don't connect to that album as much as I did at the time when I was making it," he says now, "probably because the feelings were so big." Duncan is best known by some as a member of the pop-rock trio the Middle Coast, but when the band broke up in 2019 he went solo, releasing an album under his own name inspired by the devastating end of a relationship. It's a sunny disposition that hasn't yet led Duncan astray as Boy Golden, an alter ego of sorts that he debuted this year after some time off from performing his own music. "I always think that things will end up working out." "It's easier to be optimistic than pessimistic," the Winnipeg songwriter tells me. Liam Duncan can't remember who passed on this piece of wisdom to him - perhaps his therapist, he thinks - but it perfectly captures his wide-eyed optimism, something that runs through his blues- and country-tinged music as Boy Golden so much that I just had to ask where it all came from. "If you can imagine the worst-case scenario then you can also imagine the best-case scenario because they're both just imaginings."
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