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The Goon Sax

Listen to "Sometimes Accidentally"

The Goon Sax are James Harrison, Louis Forster and Riley Jones from Brisbane. They marry sublime indiepop with brilliantly human and brutally honest vignettes of adolescent angst delivered with personality, charm and heart-wrenching wonder. 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 rave reviews 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 The Great Escape and shows with Whitney, US Girls, Twerps and Teenage Fanclub, graduated school, and then turned their focus to album number two, due to be released later in the year on Chapter…

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Holly Herndon
Everything Is Terrible!
Will Butler Merge Records
Sleep
Super Furry Animals Beggars Listen to "Crazy Naked Girls"
A. Savage Dull Tools Listen to "Winter In The South"
Young Magic
Los Campesinos! Wichita Recordings Listen to "I Broke Up In Amarante"
Arab Strap Chemikal Underground Records
Allison Crutchfield Merge Records
The Gotobeds Sub Pop Listen to "Brass Not Rash"
Sumac Thrill Jockey Listen to "Thorn In the Lion's Paw"
Deaf Wish Sub Pop Listen to "They Know"
Sextile Felte Records
Makthaverskan Run For Cover Listen to "In My Dreams"
Tigers Jaw Black Cement Records Listen to "Guardian"
Cate Le Bon Mexican Summer
Holy Sons Partisan Records Listen to "It's My Feelings"
Desaparecidos Epitaph Listen to "Man and Wife, The Former (Financial Planning)"
The Make-Up Dischord Records

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Posted 11/05/2018

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