When Goon released their album Dream 3 last summer, at least one great song was left over. The folky, poppy, psych-y Los Angeles band has now found an outlet for that track. "Atrium" will be released next month on a 7", backed by the previously released "Death Spells." The music, which has hit the internet today, finds Kenny Becker's eerily pretty vocals in unison with a proggy guitar riff, tracing a pathway that eventually leads to Goon's signature hallucinatory beauty. It reminds me of Sunny Day Real Estate cut with ML Buch's trippy surrealism.
A word from Becker:
The track "Atrium" was born during the Dream 3 sessions, on a day where it was just Claire and I in the studio. It wasn’t rehearsed at all before we started recording it. All I really had was the main guitar riff in drop D, inspired by the Rob Crow stylings of Heavy Vegetable and Thingy. The lyrics came quickly and received almost no editing. They circled around feelings of resentment, heartbreak, and the idea that a sturdy love for oneself is necessary before you can truly love others.
Listen below.
"Atrium" b/w "Death Spells" is out now digitally and 4/10 physically via Born Losers. Buy it here.
