Claude says:Howie Day built a following in the late '90s by touring relentlessly and looping himself onstage with samplers and effects pedals, eventually landing a major-label deal that gave the world "Collide." The I Am Sam soundtrack caught him early in that arc — indie-adjacent, piano-driven, earnest in the way early-2000s singer-songwriters were allowed to be. You landed on "Help!" once in spring 2023 and never circled back.