‘Days Like These,” Josh Beer’s latest. Perhaps it is the laid-back swagger of the opening guitar riff, or the way that the production playfully tugs on your heartstrings without ever losing the chill. Whatever it is, this new track and its cinematic music video feel like a lungful of fresh country air dusted with the grime of real life.
Recorded and filmed with the same soul that hatched the song live, warm, honest the “Days Like These” music video reflects the song’s central tension: the push and pull between small joys and the weight of every day. And the singer Josh Beer is direct in a way that ultimately doesn’t feel brutal, his voice just weathered enough to sound like it has taken a beating without becoming completely defeated. This isn’t country for show. This is country that knows.
Recorded at Puzzlemaker Studios in Bristol, the song’s solid structure and emotional heft come across in its heavyweight ensemble sound: Robin Alexander puts his defensive backbeat all over it, Dan Plimmer’s bass wafts between the bars and, most beguiling scene-stealer of all, Cristiano Pochesci’s pedal steel drifts in and out like a memory that won’t go away. His guitar and vocals hold it all together understated, but intimate.
The production is something special. That’s right there in the mix, sure, with a modern edge too, but it never loses its analogue soul. You can almost hear that room — feel the room with wood and wires of the instruments. It’s a sonic handshake between the classic and the contemporary, the heartbreak and the hope.
Visually, the video allows the music space to breathe. No high-drama effects or storylines just bits of real life unfolding. Whether he’s driving aimlessly or gazing out at vast, open roads, Beer brings you into his world, and it’s one where the quietest moments often speak the most.
“Days Like These” demands attention with craft, character, clarity. Giffin can do no wrong, apparently. Football Fall is the kind of song you listen to the entire way through even if it's not your first time, just because you want to feel that shit all over again.
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