Goose have announced ‘Big Modern!’, their sixth studio album, arriving June 12 via No Coincidence Records, and lead single “Good2B” is already making a strong case for the record. Fifteen tracks built on the band’s improvisational foundation, moving between heartland rock piano ballads, orchestral jazz interludes and high-octane synth rock, the album takes aim at the overstimulated, hyperconnected world and meets it with equal creative force. “It’s doing the electric slide down the grocery aisle between the Pop-Tarts and Frosted Flakes,” says Rick Mitarotonda. “Lost in the digital sauce and feeling pretty good about it.”
The rollout has been characteristically inventive, with two weeks of guerrilla marketing in major US cities, a Morse code-laden website, and Emmy-nominated actor Jake Lacy sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden between the four members of Goose, each wearing yellow hoodies spelling out “FACE,” a nod to fan-favorite track “Big Modern!” The tour is already underway with a spring run through the American South, followed by the second edition of destination festival Viva El Gonzo in San José del Cabo, Mexico (May 7-9), featuring My Morning Jacket, The Disco Biscuits, Cory Wong and more. A European headline run follows in late May, hitting London’s Electric Brixton, Amsterdam’s Melkweg and Paris’s Élysée-Montmartre, before the summer North American tour launches June 13 at RBC Amphitheatre in Toronto. One dollar from every ticket sold benefits the Western Sun Foundation.
The “Good2B” single hits with disco-funk immediacy, sun-drenched congas and slinking bass lines carrying an anxious undercurrent beneath all that joyous surface energy. It’s the right introduction to an album that promises to reward close attention across all fifteen tracks.
‘Big Modern!’ Tracklist:
(begin)
Big Modern!
Scavenger
(you are here)
((savengerspell))
Good2B
MEDIA
Torero
(faena)
POP
SALT
(again)
Good Times // End Times
((nocturne))
(((postplace)))