Sep 08 : "Zoo" - goodfight (New York)

New Music / Freshly Written & Recently Released (July 2019)

A few weeks ago I went to Pianos one evening after work and saw New York band "goodfight". They just released an album in July and played a lot of the new work at the show.

The album is titled "Dac Mcmicken, the Legend Of". A lot of the tracks deal with relationships. We're never completely sure whether the relationships are in a state of flux, just having a couple bumps in the road, or whether the main characters are doing some deep introspection and self-examination. In the first song of the album, "Zoo", we start to get the feel that the main character is at first saying that the relationship might have run its course. This is emphasized by the fact that the two of them are at the "zoo" where they first met, and maybe there's been too little growth in the intervening time. Is it time to move on? Maybe. But there are too many things that keep the main character from driving down the "off-ramp".

While the songs do deal with relationships that are in a state of flux, there's still a sense that all this questioning and self-examination is very natural and does not have the gravity that we feel in songs of other bands. We come to feel that, even if the couple were to break up, it would not be a major upheaval, but just two individuals deciding to casually move off on different paths.

It's not only the lyrics that give us that casual and easy feel, but the instrumentals as well. The song structure is a little choppy and uncertain, but the melodic lines are more light and breezy. ... And at 2:27 on the clock, it's like we are turning off on a different road with a change in feel and change in tempo. Maybe that could be the symbolic off-ramp. .... Or not.

The band describe themselves as: we are power pop, super sultry motley jazz, and made up shoegaze, violent and vulnerable trap, with flowers and indie punk

Here is "Zoo", the first track on the new album, "Dac Mcmicken, the Legend Of" :::

If you want to read the lyrics to "Zoo", here they are ::: "Zoo" lyrics.

goodfight doesn't have any other shows coming up soon, but here is the click to their Facebook page where you can read more about them::: goodfight on Facebook (CLICK HERE).