SINGLE REVIEW: Shake Some Action! – Spend Your Days in the Sunshine
Seattle’s Shake Some Action! have bottled the sound of a golden afternoon and poured it into ‘Spend Your Days in the Sunshine’. There’s an instant lift from those bright, chiming guitars, ringing out with a clarity that feels both vintage and freshly polished. The harmonies slide in with an easy charm, carrying a chorus that you can practically feel warming your face. It’s music for winding roads and rolled-down windows, unhurried but quietly euphoric.
The band’s knack for blending retro textures with a modern indie touch is on full display here. You can hear the lineage—jangle-pop’s breezy shimmer, classic power-pop hooks, the melodic ease of 60s guitar pop—but it never drifts into pastiche. Instead, it leans into nostalgia with intent, using familiar tones as a springboard for something that still feels present and alive. The production keeps everything open and sun-soaked, allowing the guitars to sparkle without losing their bite.
It’s a track that doesn’t just reference summer—it inhabits it. You can imagine this spilling from a tinny speaker at a beach café or soundtracking the last leg of a long, glowing day. Unpretentious, infectious, and entirely self-assured, ‘Spend Your Days in the Sunshine’ isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel—it’s just giving it a joyful spin.
