![]() ![]() ![]() I wanted to tour, and the moment had passed. At that point, my bandmates were moving on, starting careers and families, all that. “We spent way too long on the first album, trying to get it perfect,” says Becker. The band scored a deal with Partisan Records, and Becker thought their career was taking off. He recruited bandmates from his college buddies and released a second EP, Happy Omen, all the while working on the band’s first full-length, 2019’s Heaven is Humming. At a friend’s encouragement, Becker compiled the best of the tracks and released them as an EP, 2016’s Dusk of Punk. Goon began as Becker’s Bandcamp solo project in 2015. 1 expands the band’s sound immensely, bringing it in a lush, freer direction, hinting at wilder things to come. After effectively rebooting his band-new members, new sound, new record, and no label-Becker found the freedom to make his best music yet. “How it is when you’re out in nature but you can still hear the highway not far off.” It’s a good descriptor of Goon’s evolving aesthetic. “I really like that sad and comforting feeling,” says Goon bandleader Kenny Becker. ![]()
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