There was a period in which I did feel paralyzed by expectation, and this was the moment that I felt like I liberated myself from that.”
#One of the best days of my life free
With this song, it’s almost like there’s an unshackling, reaching a nihilistic point where you break free of all of the things that perhaps defined you and you cared about, and there’s this wonderful liberation to it. The whole album is meant to have a sense of journey throughout a day. She’s like, ‘What the fuck have you done to it?’ It’s really abrasive. I sent her the song, and she’s so annoyed about it. “I had the piano motif that’s in this for a while. I’m interested in the implications of cross generations of what we do to one another and how it continues to echo through generations.” I think the same applies to what your parent might do to you, you might end up doing back to your parent or to your child. It’s an exploration into inherited pain, like what someone does to you in a relationship, you might end up doing to someone else in another relationship. “I have a good quote for this: ‘How many scars did we justify just because we loved the person holding the knife?’ This is a song exploring our close relationships and how it is often those that we’re closest to that we hurt the most. Terrible things happen, and things that we feel ashamed of happen, and it’s like, ‘How do we continue with that knowledge?’ I don’t think the answer is burying it.” I think it’s interesting when we look at the past because it’s how we mature as a society. I read this book by Kazuo Ishiguro called The Buried Giant, which is touching upon similar themes about this collective guilt. I’ve begun to learn that the things that you don’t discuss are the ones that become most destructive to any friendship or relationship. “I think there’s a great tradition in the UK of people-particularly men-not sharing any emotion with each other and hiding stuff away. I videoed it, and it was just an interesting moment which stayed with me because it felt like the sun was coming up on a completely different world.” I didn’t sleep at all and got up at 5 in the morning, strolled down to the beach, and watched the sunrise. It was a pretty fascinating place for that to unravel. I was in Dungeness in Kent, staying in this little cabin on a beach. “This was inspired by a moment the morning after we went into the first lockdown, in March 2020. I don’t want to be sad anymore.’ There’s subtle development in the piano part-the thing with minimalism that’s fascinating is you change one tiny bit, and it feels like an entire orchestra is coming in, one change of a note.” This is a mantra-based song where the mantra is, ‘I don’t want to be sad anymore. I’ve been meditating for five or six years, and a big part of my meditation is mantra-repeating a mantra over and over again. l really started to delve into Erik Satie, Nils Frahm, and Philip Glass, and explore the wonders of limitation. I’ve been interested in minimalism for a while, but this is when it really began to peak. “This was Laurie and I’s first adventure into minimalism. It’s this weight coming off your shoulders.” You are suddenly rooted in the present, and it’s this beautiful relief. It’s the sunrise which you suddenly stop and notice, the joy of small things. It’s about the euphoria you feel after really getting to the bottom. But I changed the title to ‘Best Day of My Life,’ and it somehow kept its sadness but became more poignant. It was originally titled ‘Worst Day of My Life,’ and the original idea was evidently somewhat more depressing. “This was one of the first songs that was written for the album. “It felt like the beginning of something new.” Here, he guides us through Best Day of My Life, track by track. “I’d gone through the works a bit with depression and anxiety, and making this felt like a new dawn,” he says.
#One of the best days of my life how to
Exploring themes of mental health and how to find a way forward in the darkest times, it marks a bold chapter for Odell. It has resulted in his fifth album, Best Day of My Life, featuring hypnotic, minimalist piano lines and stark melodies. But it’s amazing how reducing what’s possible centers your attention and shapes the songs because they have to do so much more.” Even on my phone, I can record an album and put a symphonic orchestra on it. Nowadays, we have so many endless possibilities. “I didn’t realize how difficult it would be to stick to those limitations,” the British singer-songwriter tells Apple Music. Recently freed from a long-standing record deal, he realized now was the time for that record. After a trip around Europe with his girlfriend in 2021, he got back to London and saw an Instagram post featuring a Rick Rubin quote about how arbitrary limitations can produce endless results. In the back of his mind, Tom Odell had always wanted to make a record that was just a piano and his vocals-no embellishments, no bombast, no chucking the kitchen sink at it.
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