Album Review: It's a New Day Tonight by Michael Rault

Canadian rocker Michael Rault isn't one to be shy about his influences. After 2015's Living Daylight, where he channeled his inner T. Rex and strutted his way through a winning set of boogie, ballads, and bouncing pop tunes, he takes a different tack on 2018's It's a New Day Tonight. This time around, he takes aim at the Beatles and their solo incarnations, with Harrison-esque slide guitars, chugging midtempos, towering vocal harmonies, and melodic basslines coming together for a sound not too far from Badfinger, but with a classic approach that came about after Rault hooked up with the Daptone Records crew and recorded at their studio.

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Taking its title from a pre-game interview with a hockey player after a bad night, Montreal-based Michael Rault's second full-length (and debut, in the U.S., for Daptone's rock-oriented Wick imprint) is a paean to nocturnal renewal, and many of its songs reference sleep.   That's not to say that this album is by any means soporific — quite the contrary. Recording at Daptone studio has given the fledgling singer-songwriter some welcome vitality, boosting up the mid-range; its live-to-tape setup gives an immediacy to Rault's insouciant ….

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