San Diego indie band almost monday (yeah, all lowercase…) this week brought the warmth ahead of Thursday morning’s snow, showering packed Brighton Music Hall with 20 sunny songs—each catchier than the next—in just over an hour. The band is about halfway through the U.S. portion of its DIVE (yeah, all uppercase) tour, which extends to Europe in March.

Almost Monday (okay, enough with the lowercase/uppercase madness) has been putting out music since before the pandemic, but has taken off over the past year with the debut of its DIVE album last year. Its song “Can’t Slow Down” has been topping various charts, including Billboard’s Alternative Airplay list.

almost monday band — almost monday at Brighton Music Hall

Almost Monday is led by charismatic singer Dawson Daugherty, who alternately joined surfer bro bandmates for three-across guitar and then did without the instrument—at that point he embraced the mic, allowed his arms to swing and mop of curly hair to bounce as his voice hit low and high notes. Cole Clisby (guitar) and bassist Luke Fabry (sun’s out, guns out in a tank top) round out the band, oohing, aahing, and la-la-ing on songs when harmonies kick in, with Rafael Vidal joining Almost Monday on the road as its drummer. Vidal had his chance to really bang away at the start and end of several songs, including “Jupiter.”

Their Boston set initially followed the track list on Dive, starting with the murky intro cut, “Dive,” then getting the party started with “Is it Too Late” and “Can’t Slow Down.” Not that Daugherty needed to ask twice, but ahead of cranking up “Cough Drops” he queried the crowd: “Are you ready to sing a little bit?”

The crowd singing didn’t stop, and Daugherty egged on the audience by thrusting the mic toward it during “Only Wanna Dance.” Inspired by that song, Daugherty showed off a few moves of his own, including some loose pirouettes.

Later in the show Daugherty enticed the crowd to jump in unison, as if caught up in the swells of “Tidal Wave.” Organic overhead clapping and left-to-right hand waving broke out during other songs.

Almost Monday clearly feels comfy on the East Coast even during winter. It’s been doing the rounds here at various venues, opening for AJR last summer at TD Garden, hitting The Sinclair in Cambridge in 2023, and performing at Roadrunner in Brighton the year before that. Their Brighton Music Hall show sold out the cozy 500-person capacity club, with many attendees from nearby colleges, but also a handful of tweens with their parents (opener Adrian Lyles, who appears on Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, might have been the draw for some in the younger demographic).

The band, performing in front of big-eyed sun backdrop, gave the crowd what it came for: dancey, surfy, poppy numbers that rarely surpassed 3 minutes in length. The longest selection was really two older songs morphed into one: “Broken People” and “Parking Lot View.” Funk and rap wove there way into the mix, too. Almost Monday’s lyrics are sweet, with love and almost-love songs making up the majority. It’s a band that tempts you to figure out who else they sound like, with hints of Empire of the Sun here and Tame Impala there.

The falling temps outside the venue weren’t lost on Almost Monday, which more than once invited the crowd “back to San Diego” for songs like “Sunburn” and “Sun Keeps on Shining.” On “Life Goes By,” Daugherty sang: “Yeah, life goes by on the television, Take me to the beach ’cause I wanna dip in…” I don’t think he had a Polar Plunge in mind.

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The band finished strong with some of its cheekier songs, like “You Look So Good,” (“I said you look so good, You should be a model, yeah, you know you should…”) and “She Likes Sports” (“She likes sports, she’s in it to win, Got eyes on the prize, beats you to the finish…”).

More than once, Daugherty told the crowd how much the band loved them, and for good measure, he pulled out what looked to be a Polaroid camera to snap a shot.

“We don’t ever want to forget you,” he cooed.