…digital expanded edition with five extra songs.
This is Good Looks’ second album after their debut Bummer Year, released in 2022. The quartet, from Austin Texas, are playing post-punk indie with an eighties vibe after having more of an americana sound on their first album.
Comparisons could be made with Husker Du, although this is lighter and more melodic than them, and one track, ‘Broken Body’, has a slight feel of the UK band Echo and the Bunnymen.
Going fast forward to the 2000s, some of the tracks have looping, driving rhythm guitar riffs similar to The Hold Steady. There are poppier numbers, though, such as the single ‘Can You See Me Tonight?’ and the album finishes with two slower, gentler tracks.
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