We're Not Talking, by The Goon Sax

We're Not Talking

by The Goon Sax

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nur_ These songs are like anthems I want to shout while jumping and hugging my friends. Love the humanity I can see through them Favorite track: A Few Times Too Many.

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Artwork by Riley Jones
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Artwork by Riley Jones
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1.	Make Time 4 Love 02:09	buy track
2.	Love Lost 03:04	buy track
3.	She Knows 02:32	buy track
4.	Losing Myself 02:45	buy track
5.	Somewhere In Between 01:00	buy track
6.	Strange Light 03:22	buy track
7.	Sleep EZ 03:02	buy track
8.	We Can't Win 03:13	buy track
9.	A Few Times Too Many 02:59	buy track
10.	Now You Pretend 01:17	buy track
11.	Get Out 02:18	buy track
12.	Til The End 02:05	buy track

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***Customers in Australia and NZ - please purchase at thegoonsax.bandcamp.com/album/were-not-talking-aus-nz-customers-3 ***

The Goon Sax are James Harrison, Louis Forster and Riley Jones from Brisbane, Australia. Still in high school when they made their first album Up To Anything in 2016, their brand of awkwardly transcendent teenage guitar pop took them into end of year lists for BBC 6Music, Billboard and Rough Trade, and earned them raves from the Guardian, Pitchfork, Spin, Uncut, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. According to Metacritic, Up To Anything was the 8th best-reviewed debut album anywhere in the world in 2016.

The Goon Sax toured UK and Europe twice on that record, played shows with Whitney, US Girls, Twerps and Teenage Fanclub, graduated school, and then turned their focus to album number two. They flew to Melbourne to record with James Cecil and Cameron Bird, respectively former/current members of Architecture In Helsinki.

New album We're Not Talking shows how much can change between the ages of 17 and 19. It's a record that takes the enthusiasms of youth and twists them into darker, more sophisticated shapes. Relationships are now laced with hesitation, remorse, misunderstanding and ultimately compassion. Lines like, "When the bus went past your house and past your stop my eyes filled with tears" (from “We Can’t Win”) and "I’ve got a few things above my bed but it feels so empty, I’ve got spaces to fill and we're not talking" (from “A Few Times Too Many”), are quite simply heartbreaking.

Strings, horns, even castanets sneak their way onto the album, but We're Not Talking isn't glossy throwaway pop. Sounds stick out at surprising angles (on the frenetic “She Knows”), cowbells become lead instruments (in stunning album opener “Make Time For Love”), brief home-recorded fragments appear unexpectedly, and “Losing Myself” is like the Young Marble Giants go hip hop.

Drummer Riley Jones really comes to the fore here, joining Louis and James in singing lead and writing songs for the first time – with songs such as the devastatingly beautiful “Strange Light” – making the band the musical equivalent of an equilateral triangle (the strongest shape in physics). After the album was recorded, Louis spent some time in a freezing Berlin apartment, but they are now all back in Australia, and keeping busy playing shows with Angel Olsen, Perfume Genius and Protomartyr.

Delivering brilliantly human and brutally honest vignettes of adolescent angst, The Goon Sax brim with personality, charm and heart-wrenching honesty. We’re Not Talking is a record made by restless artists, defying expectations as if hardly noticing, and its complexity makes We're Not Talking even more of a marvel.

"The Goon Sax have created a glorious pop album that perfectly captures those awkward confusions on the road to adulthood" 4/5 - MOJO

"We're Not Talking manages to further embellish the adolescent brilliance of their debut. They experiment with pop's history while still continuing to grow into a sound that's undeniably their own." 9/10 - Loud and Quiet

"This group of teenagers from Brisbane could be your favorite new band." - NPR Music

"Chock full of frenetic energy, catchy rhythms and captivating melodies" 4/5 – DIY

“The Brisbane trio is set to win the hearts and minds of lovesick kids around the world with the release of 'We're Not Talking'” - Noisey

credits

released September 14, 2018

James - Guitar, Bass, keys, Vocals
Riley - Percussion, Vocals
Louis - Guitar, Bass, keys, Vocals
Lizzie Welsh - Violin
Biddy Connor - Viola
Madison Foley - Trumpet

All songs written by The Goon Sax.
Produced by James Cecil, Cameron Bird and The Goon Sax
Engineered and mixed by James Cecil at Super Melody World
Mastered by Tex Houston

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The Goon Sax Brisbane, Australia

The Goon Sax are James Harrison, Louis Forster and Riley Jones from Brisbane, Australia. Still in high school when they made their ﬁrst album Up To Anything in 2016, their brand of awkwardly transcendent teenage guitar pop took them into end of year lists for BBC6, Billboard and Rough Trade, and earned raves from the Guardian, Pitchfork, Spin, Uncut, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. ... more

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By The Meadow

Bambra, VIC

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