We're Not Talking (Aus/NZ customers)

by The Goon Sax

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Nostro Wow - whilst I liked their first album, which sounded very fresh upon release. What we have here is a real honing of their pop sensibilities and diversity of sounds. From the Johnathan Richmanesque opening the scene appears set. Yet, there is an effective array of gentle guitar driven 'pop' with clever changes of songwriting and singing, so that pigeonholing belies the complexity delivered in each of these short tracks. Favorite track: Sleep EZ.

Ryan Stegman Twee Pop with heart, just like the debut much even richer Favorite track: Make Time 4 Love.

wynston lee somewhat splendidly sardonic sounds of ‘straya Favorite track: Losing Myself.

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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 outside Australia and NZ - please purchase at thegoonsax.bandcamp.com/album/were-not-talking ***

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 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, Teenage Fanclub, Twerps and Blank Realm, 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.

Upcoming 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, full of lines like “When the bus went past your house and past your stop my eyes filled with tears" 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.” Relationships are now laced with hesitation, remorse, misunderstanding and ultimately compassion.

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, cow-bells become lead instruments and brief home-recorded fragments appear unexpectedly. This 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.

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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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