The act of making music can be extremely useful in life. If your heart has been broken, giving voice to those raw emotions can act as a salve to ease the pain. Greg Laswell knows this, because he did just that on 2006’s Through Toledo, surely one of the most intense breakup albums ever made. When you’ve finally reached the point where life is beginning to seem beautiful and exciting again, there’s no better way to celebrate it than by singing the song that greeted you, fully formed in your head, when you awoke that very morning, telling you everything is gonna be all right. That’s precisely what Laswell did with How the Day Sounds, a six-song EP released early this year, serving as a progress report on his revitalized state of being.