The Goon Sax "Mirror II" LP WH (2021)

Details: Goon Sax' Mirror II LP released on white vinyl, on Matador Records, 2021. New stock, sealed.

Description: "Since forming in high school, Brisbane band The Goon Sax—the trio of Riley Jones, Louis Forster, and James Harrison, best friends who take turns writing, singing, and playing each instrument— have been celebrated for their unpretentious, kinetic homemade pop. Mirror ll, The Goon Sax’s first album for Matador, is something else entirely: a new beginning, a multi-dimensional eclectic journey of musical craftsmanship that moves from disco to folk to no wave skronk with staggering cohesion. Gone are the first-person insecurities of their school days—they’ve been made expansive, more universal, weirder.

Mirror II is intense, the sum of everything that has always made The Goon Sax great: robust sprechgesang, raw lyrical candor, ascending guitar pop structures that would make the most storied jangle bands blush, elevated into their newfound narrative verisimilitude, and expanded sonic experimentations. Each member’s idiosyncratic style comes across on record: Riley’s bubblegum noise is more present than ever before, Louis’ moody, super-natural avant-pop, and James’ psychedelic folk."

Grade: M (new stock)

TRACK LISTING SIDE A:

A1. In The Stone
A2. Psychic
A3. Tag
A4. Temples
A5. The Chance

TRACK LISTING SIDE B:

B1. Bathwater
B2. Desire
B3. Carpetry
B4. Til Dawn
B5. Caterpillars