Goo is a four-piece indie rock band from Keighley, West Yorkshire comprising Tanisha Badman (vocals, guitar), Sam Drury (guitar, vocals), Bryn Price (bass) and Kurt Wood (drums, vocals) whose sound has been described as fuzzy, sunshine-saturated indie-punk. They release their debut EP `Chomp` this month.
This six-track extended play opens with `Inside Out` which is a breezy punk-tinged alternative rock ear worm of a track with some complementing harmonies and a chorus that is made for chanting along to and joining in with the “Hey, Hey, Heys”. There`s a grungier fuzzier texture to `Arcadia` who`s meaning refers to a vision of pastoralism and harmony with nature. A delightful bass and drum led melodic composition.
`Beth` opens with a pounding beat which continues throughout on this contemplative quite anthemic foot tapper. We have a kind of reflective submission with `Rush` which has that easy going summery vibe about it before taking off around the halfway mark with a more challenging forceful groove.
`Call In Sick` is a reworked version of a previous single and although it`s more polished it hasn`t lost any of the rawness of the original. A kind of protest song against having to work a job for minimum wage. It`s the sort of number that will get in your head and have you singing the line “calling in sick” for the rest of the day after listening to it. This extended play closes with `De Novo` which translates to ‘from the beginning’ or ‘anew’ from the Latin. It`s a fairly dreamy meditative melodic piece to end on.
I read that Goo have been described as “a collision of The Breeders, L7 and Elastica, catalyzed by a small dose of My Bloody Valentinesque shoegaze” and that is a pretty fair assessment. Nevertheless, I thought there was also hints of The Bangles and The Go-Gos mixed in as well, but this band are no copyists and `Chomp` certainly proves that.
`Chomp` is a wonderful slice of as has been said before fuzzy, sunshine-saturated indie-punk and arrives just in time for those hopefully long, hot summer days and nights.
Rating 8.5 / 10
