Goon Sax, The / We're Not Talking
| Album: | We're Not Talking | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Goon Sax, The | Added: | Sep 2019 | |
| Label: | Chapter | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2019-10-07 | Pull Date: | 2019-12-09 |
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| Week Ending: | Dec 8 | Dec 1 | Nov 24 | Nov 17 | Nov 10 | Nov 3 | Oct 27 | Oct 20 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 12, 2021: | Magnetized Toner (rebroadcast from Oct 15, 2019)
She Knows |
4. | Dec 13, 2019: | KZSU Time Traveler
We Can't Win |
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| 2. | Jun 24, 2021: | Magnetized Toner (rebroadcast from Oct 1, 2019)
Love Lost |
5. | Dec 11, 2019: | The Library
Make Time 4 Love |
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| 3. | Jan 08, 2020: | THe Library
Make Time 4 Love |
6. | Dec 06, 2019: | KZSU Time Traveler
We Can't Win |
Album Review
DJ Stace
Reviewed 2019-09-25
Reviewed 2019-09-25
Album / Artist: We’re Not Talking / Goon Sax
Label: Chapter Music
Reviewed: 9/24/2019
DJ Stace
General Comments / Release Notes
Teens from Brisbane Australia, one the son of Go-Betweens founder Robert Forster, deliver brilliant chamber-pop songs of insecurity, hesitation, misunderstanding and other teen/adult troubles. Moments of melodic brilliance everywhere that echo the likes of David Gedge & Wedding Present, or Stephen Merrit & Magnetic Fields. Fantastic arrangements and production, deceptive in their simplicity. Are these kids really only 19? This is a brilliant album.
FCCs: None
RIYL: Wedding Present, Magnetic Fields, U.S. Girls, The Glands, Violent Femmes
Play: All, especially 1,2,3,7,11,12
Tracks:
1. **** Make Time 4 Love (02:09) - Mid to Uptempo acoustic guitar rocker. That Wedding Present sound, right from the starting gate. Nice strings over the top at the chorus. More cowbell.
2. *** Love Lost (03:04) - Midtempo lament to trying to be someone for someone else. More great strings/organ over the top and great talk/sing lyrical arrangement. Castanets are a cool add. More castanets.
3. ** She Knows 02:32 - Uptempo rocker reminds a bit of The Jam, Buzzcocks and that type of intensity.
4. Losing Myself 02:45 - Midtempo, great lyrics and Male/Female vocals. Deceptively simple and teen sounding without being trite.
5. Somewhere In Between 01:00 - Brief, muffled GBV-like piano and voice. pleasant.
6. ** Strange Light 03:22 - Slow and soft strumming acoustic guitar with female vocals remids a bit of Tindersticks with the bassline bobbling underneath.
7. ** Sleep EZ 03:02 - Midtempo GBV insistent guitar stylings. David Gedge style vocals really show through, here. Cool off-kilter guitar solo.
8. ** We Can’t Win 03:13 - Slow to Midtempo drum machine intro, with soft piano eventually leads to a soft Smiths-like strummer. Melancholy lyrics. Female and Male vocals on this one.
9. ** A Few Times Too Many 02:59 - Uptempo. Another Jam-like mod-punk tune with bass and drums really driving the arrangement. Have I mentioned the lyrics and delivery remind me of David Gedge? Play this one before or after something from Wedding Present’s Watusi album.
10. Now You Pretend 01:17 - Quiet piano and vocal piece. SPare and melancholy.
11. *** Get Out 02:18 - uptempo. More Cowbell. Another great Wedding Present song they never wrote or recorded.
12. ** Til The End 02:05 - Midtempo, soft strummer with great F/M vocal duet. Follow with Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile.
Label: Chapter Music
Reviewed: 9/24/2019
DJ Stace
General Comments / Release Notes
Teens from Brisbane Australia, one the son of Go-Betweens founder Robert Forster, deliver brilliant chamber-pop songs of insecurity, hesitation, misunderstanding and other teen/adult troubles. Moments of melodic brilliance everywhere that echo the likes of David Gedge & Wedding Present, or Stephen Merrit & Magnetic Fields. Fantastic arrangements and production, deceptive in their simplicity. Are these kids really only 19? This is a brilliant album.
FCCs: None
RIYL: Wedding Present, Magnetic Fields, U.S. Girls, The Glands, Violent Femmes
Play: All, especially 1,2,3,7,11,12
Tracks:
1. **** Make Time 4 Love (02:09) - Mid to Uptempo acoustic guitar rocker. That Wedding Present sound, right from the starting gate. Nice strings over the top at the chorus. More cowbell.
2. *** Love Lost (03:04) - Midtempo lament to trying to be someone for someone else. More great strings/organ over the top and great talk/sing lyrical arrangement. Castanets are a cool add. More castanets.
3. ** She Knows 02:32 - Uptempo rocker reminds a bit of The Jam, Buzzcocks and that type of intensity.
4. Losing Myself 02:45 - Midtempo, great lyrics and Male/Female vocals. Deceptively simple and teen sounding without being trite.
5. Somewhere In Between 01:00 - Brief, muffled GBV-like piano and voice. pleasant.
6. ** Strange Light 03:22 - Slow and soft strumming acoustic guitar with female vocals remids a bit of Tindersticks with the bassline bobbling underneath.
7. ** Sleep EZ 03:02 - Midtempo GBV insistent guitar stylings. David Gedge style vocals really show through, here. Cool off-kilter guitar solo.
8. ** We Can’t Win 03:13 - Slow to Midtempo drum machine intro, with soft piano eventually leads to a soft Smiths-like strummer. Melancholy lyrics. Female and Male vocals on this one.
9. ** A Few Times Too Many 02:59 - Uptempo. Another Jam-like mod-punk tune with bass and drums really driving the arrangement. Have I mentioned the lyrics and delivery remind me of David Gedge? Play this one before or after something from Wedding Present’s Watusi album.
10. Now You Pretend 01:17 - Quiet piano and vocal piece. SPare and melancholy.
11. *** Get Out 02:18 - uptempo. More Cowbell. Another great Wedding Present song they never wrote or recorded.
12. ** Til The End 02:05 - Midtempo, soft strummer with great F/M vocal duet. Follow with Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile.
Track Listing
| 1. | Make Time 4 Love | 7. | Sleep Ez | |||
| 2. | Love Lost | 8. | We Can't Win | |||
| 3. | She Knows | 9. | A Few Times Too Many | |||
| 4. | Losing Myself | 10. | Now You Pretend | |||
| 5. | Somewhere In Between | 11. | Get Out | |||
| 6. | Stange Light | 12. | Till The End |