Featured Artist: Little Daylight

Nikki, Matt and Eric are Little Daylight. Don’t ask for any other information about the members, because we don’t know and neither does anyone else in the music biz. And the band would like to keep it that way, at least for now. In a world that is so fascinated with celebrity, it’s a bit peculiar to see a new group opt for anonymity, but the electro-pop trio would rather the focus be set in its rightful place: the music. So far, they’re doing a pretty good job with that.

Little Daylight emerged last year as remixers, re-imagining the likes of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros and Freelance Whales. Their ability to add an electronic element to otherwise straightforward indie or folk music buzzed around the Internet, and soon the name was on the tip of many music journalists’ tongues. But the band wanted more and soon began to write a collection of original compositions that would end up being its debut offer, the Tunnel Vision EP.

Since January, the New York-based three-piece has been teasing both music fans and critics alike by essentially releasing the EP one song at a time. Tunnel Vision’s opener and first single, “Overdose,” quickly topped the charts on the taste-making site Hype Machine and stayed at no. 1. Its galloping percussion, squealing synths and Nikki’s pristine vocals proved that Little Daylight was an alt-pop mainstay. Subsequently, the band released the slinky, vocoder laden “Name In Lights” and the saccharine sweet, chirping “Glitter and Gold” before the five-track EP’s release, and on the day it dropped the urgent, icy fourth single, “Restart,” was released, leaving the instrumental “Treelines” as the only non-single of the collection.

For a group so adamant on keeping its members personal lives a mystery, it’s clear that Little Daylight is just fine with seeing its band name in the spotlight, and so is its label, Capitol Records. The lead-up and hype built around this release was astonishing and something other up-and-coming bands should take note of. Aside from playing shows this summer and fall, the three-piece has been busy writing songs for its debut full-length album, which is slated for a 2014 release. With all the buzz they’ve already garnered for themselves, it will be interesting to see how much more Nikki, Matt and Eric can conjure up for their full-length. My bet is quite a lot.