This came out in 2003 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Fame, fortune, poster-boy looks — you’d think Pete Yorn would be happy. But no. It seems he still doesn’t have the one thing all that stuff can’t guarantee: True love.
And on his sophomore album Day I Forgot, the sensitive singer-songwriter spends much of his time lamenting the one (or ones) that got away. “I’ve seen the silence grow between us,” are his first words, and they set the beautifully downbeat tone that permeates many of these confessional cuts. Which is not to say the disc doesn’t rock — Yorn kicks us (and himself) in the butt on several cuts, including Come Back Home, the snarling Carlos (Don’t Let it Go to Your Head) and the anxious, Paul Westerberg-ish Burrito. More often, though, Day I Forgot is the sound of Yorn, alone in his home studio with his hoarse croack and acoustic guitar, trying to figure out what went wrong. And while that gets a bit old after a while — like the prom king complaining that the head cheerleader dumped him — Yorn’s considerable talent and songcraft guarantee Day I Forgot remains memorable.
