BIG MODERN!

by Goose

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K.R.K. It can't quite top last year's superlative Chain Yer Dragon, but as Goose's big eighties-influenced arena pop-rock record, Big Modern! is a lot of a good thing. I don't love splitting multi-part suites into different tracks, but these are rock-solid studio renditions and include several killer new tunes. Beyond the breezy hooks and instrumental virtuosity, the themes of 2020s tech anxiety and alienation help the record feel current and vital. Another solid LP for the discography! Favorite track: Good Times // End Times.
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1.
(begin) 00:59
2.
Big Modern! 06:28
Jump shot Caveat Terracotta rooftop You hit the floor And your boots light up Love shack Almanac Rabbit in a top hat Easy on the eyes But built real tough Laugh track Zodiac Adventure loves a roof rack Picture yourself in the ponderosa pine Deep Space Sublimate Chewing on the clickbait Come on in for a real good time There’s a rattle in my brain but I don’t mind Moonstruck Giddy up Candle in a teacup Casanova with the armchair smile Whipsaw Monologue Money on the south paw Hangdog with the slack jaw style There’s a rattle in my brain but lately I don’t mind Look alive Looks so easy Look it up Let’s see what we can do One by one everything you wanted Face to face Forever with a view Kingpin Violin Cobra in a tailspin Desperado on a hot tin roof Mustang Bangerang Turtle in the fast lane Old guard but he’s got new boots There’s a rattle in my brain but lately I don't mind Hang tight Satellite Something doesn’t feel right Headlong to the big blue sky Deep state Figure eight Sifting through the substrate Holy Roller with the bright red eyes There’s a rattle in my brain but lately I don’t mind Look alive Looks so easy Look it up Let’s see what we can do One by one everything you wanted Face to face Forever with a view Look alive Looks so easy Look it up Let’s see what we can do One by one everything you wanted Face to face Forever with a view FACE FACE FACE FACE Look alive Looks so easy Look it up Let’s see what we can do One by one everything you wanted Face to face Forever with a view Look alive Looks so easy Look it up Let’s see what we can do One by one everything you wanted Face to face Forever with a view
3.
Savenger 04:30
Doesn’t matter if I mean it Doesn’t matter where I am You’ll never see me coming I’m the invisible hand Give me all your desperation And I’ll twist anything you say I’ll be your paranoid delusion Watch the color run away Still I wonder What it takes To reach beyond a life awake All that’s easy come is easy go Looking down from Where I stand You’re just a pawn in the palm of my hand All that could have been is gone below It’s everything you ever wanted Along the soft eternal hue Delivered from an endless indecision Lights that lie in wait for you So give me all your imperfection Clawing at the corners of your mind It’s a tragic exposition To an end of place and time Still I wonder What it takes To reach beyond a life awake All that’s easy come is easy go Looking down from Where I stand You're just a pawn in the palm of my hand All that could have been is gone below Still I wonder What it takes To reach beyond a life awake All that’s easy come is easy go Looking down from Where I stand You're just a pawn in the palm of my hand All that could have been is gone below All that could have been is gone below
4.
In a world of all our own There’ll be nothing left to know There’ll be no place left for you to go In a world of all our own There’ll be nothing left to know There’ll be no place left for you to go
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Good2B 07:01
Off in the distance Colourful fishes Blowing me kisses I reach but I miss it Deep in the scatter Love in a the pattern Passing impressions of Something that matters Hyperconnected Body electric Go to the nexus A primal directive Light when you need it HOLLYWOOD JESUS Dorsal finitas But who will believe us Hey big body How do you want me Je suis tous a vous Anatomic tsunami Life in the heather What could be better Chasing the axis Interior weather Ghost in the static All you imagine Slips through your fingers The moment you grab it Hebdomadally Presto! Finale! Dancing our way Though the uncanny valley Can you feel it The rapture rising up Will it be enough Will it be a love We’ve never felt A light like nothing else Coming up through the cracks in the underwell Can it coalesce Before our feet Turned out, the tongue of some rhapsody Oh felicity will you stay with me Will you stay Off in the distance Colourful fishes Blowing me kisses I’m gone with the misfits Wonder the reaches of Biokineseis Beautiful beaches A runaway thesis Off to the races Em dash oasis Tell all our friends that We’ll call if we make it Right when you need it HOLLYWOOD JESUS Dorsal finitas But who will believe us Can you feel it The rapture rising up Will it be enough Will it be a love We’ve never felt A light like nothing else Coming up through the cracks in the underwell Can it coalesce Before our feet Turned out, the tongue of some rhapsody Oh felicity will you stay with me? Will you stay Can you feel it The rapture rising up Will it be enough Will it be a love We’ve never felt A light like nothing else Coming up through the cracks in the underwell Can it coalesce Before our feet Turned out, the tongue of some rhapsody Oh felicity will you stay with me Will you stay
7.
MEDIA 02:52
Imagine a life with no expectation no one telling you who to be No moving pictures show you how to act No infiltration to how you see Would it be worth living Without the goals in place The constant chase of satisfaction Running the impossible race My mind has been consumed by media media media My mind has been consumed by media media media My mind has been consumed by media media media My mind has been consumed by media media media Culture is created by the masses and killed by the hidden Dogma made to round us up To break the mold becomes forbidden To believe gives us a purpose Feeds us what we need to survive For a better life is around the corner only when freedom shakes and dies My mind has been consumed by media media media My mind has been consumed by media media media My mind has been consumed by media media media My mind has been consumed by media media media
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Torero 05:21
They don’t care about resolution All the waves that you make You wonder what it is That makes you Lay awake haunted From the rip I heard it on a payphone Throwing like a rodeo don’t even know me though You caught a little lip That’s a given They don’t know the truth No they don’t have a clue Putting this off is one more way To plead out to the others who have carried you Their dedication is so high There’s nothing left but an emptiness inside Waiting around the corner they’ll be Never telling you the same thing ‘Cause they can’t keep track, no It’s just another day Denny opened up a new door Glad he got a hold of it he wasn’t over it You know you got a way Don’t forget it Just a space now Just a pace now Putting this off is one more way To plead out to the others who have carried you The dedication is so high There’s nothing left but an emptiness inside Waiting around the corner they’ll be Never telling you the same thing ‘Cause they can’t keep track, no It’s just another day Waiting around the corner they’ll be Never telling you the same thing ‘Cause they can’t keep track, no It’s just another day Waiting around the corner they’ll be Never telling you the same thing ‘Cause they can’t keep track, no It’s just another day
9.
(faena) 04:29
10.
POP 03:46
Base jumps all day Roll tubes in the bay Ride a bike in a hail Pass the knight with the holy grail Look a bear in the eyes Try to get out alive Which one is the wiser Keep sharp, I’ve been known to surprise ya Is this what you’re dreaming of? Push it or it’s all for naught Should I change to feel enough? If you don’t slow down, you pop Visions left out of thought Can’t catch but I’m caught Listen up for a loser Big mess with the big man bruiser Funny stitch in the side Try to keep it alive Never bored for a moment I’ve been looking so I’m just gonna own it Is this what you’re dreaming of? Push it or it’s all for naught Should I change to feel enough? If you don’t slow down Is this what you’re dreaming of? Push it or it’s all for naught Should I change to be enough? If you don’t slow down, you pop
11.
SALT 12:43
So you think you know what it’s all about Think you know somehow how it all went down Think you know what it is (tell ‘em again) Think you know what’s coming (tell ‘em one more time) What is it you think you’re gonna get Taking the reigns Pulling the blinds Pulling the wool Out from your eyes Turn it inside out See it in your mind Breaking down your doors There’s nowhere to hide Try to keep my head Buried down in the dirt No mind to an old two stitch rail bird One piece at a time (one by one) And away we go (everything we’ve got) Come on now buddy whatcha got to show Taking the reigns Pulling the blinds Pulling the wool Out from your eyes Turn it inside out See it in your mind Breaking down your doors There’s nowhere to hide You’re only lonely now You want some Somebody to love Are you old now Can you hold out Just a little bit longer Just a little bit more time
12.
(again) 01:34
13.
Eyes wild like a slot machine Floating on watermelon nicotine The price keeps rising But I keep buying Pretty lights in from outer space I get high when they call my name There’s no denying The sun keeps dying Close talker with a lot to say Running lines for a judgement day Well I don’t mind Got to make friends sometime Wallflower at the masquerade Just hoping that it’s not too late To stop pretending And start beginning Everyone’s asking How did it happen? A nocturne pulls you under and A dark turn keeps you wondering Is this the end? 101 01 | 00 | 01 Moondog on an ivory throne Getting lost in a palindrome It’s a sweet surrender To the great pretender Cards say he’s gonna be a star Burning up like a Joan of Arc Well there’s no harm trying ‘Cause the sun keeps dying Crop top and a bandolier Swinging from a chandelier There’s no tomorrow For your hometown hero Everyone’s asking How did it happen? A nocturne pulls you under and A dark turn keeps you wondering Is this the end? 11 | 000 00 11 STOP
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((nocturne)) 07:40
000 1 01 10 100 1000 1011 … Everyone’s asking How did this happen? A nocturne pulls you under and A dark turn keeps you wondering Is this the end? 00 | 101 Everyone’s asking How could this happen? A nocturne pulls you under and A dark turn keeps you wondering Is this the end 0 | 001 | 101 10 STOP
15.
Come quiet morning, you Move through my body Call and I’ll follow you through Cast in the half light I’m Silently wading in blue All that I’ve wandered, and All that I’ve borrowed Finally where I must be Restless white river your Violence has taken in me So come quiet mourning, you Lay down my sorrow Here in your shadow I’ll stay Burdened no longer Endlessly falling away

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released June 12, 2026

Produced by D. James Goodwin
Recorded by D. James Goodwin at Allaire Studios, Woodstock, NY
Mixed and Mastered by D. James Goodwin at The Isokon, Timberville, VA
Additional recording at The Isokon and The Chateau
Additional engineering by Gillian Pelkonen

Rick Mitarotonda — vocals, guitars
Peter Anspach — keyboards, synthesizers, guitars, vocals
Trevor Weekz — bass
Cotter Ellis — drums, percussion, vocals
Matt Campbell — synthesizers, keyboards, vocals
D. James Goodwin — guitars, synthesizers, percussion

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Rick Mitarotonda (vocals, guitar), Peter Anspach (vocals, keys, guitar), Trevor Weekz (bass), and Cotter Ellis (drums) — traverse genres with their unique brand of irresistible songcraft, fluid musicianship, and spirited improvisational performance.

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