Brooklyn’s Good Looking Friends create expansive sonic worlds that conjure sci-fi parables and contemporary fables to defeat modern monsters. Armed with glistening melodies and breezy harmonies, they dispatch these demons with songs that challenge the absurdities of our time.
It’s been eleven years since the first GLF outing, and while the galaxy of musicians swirling around songwriter Zach Fischer has, over time, settled into a constellation of three trusted collaborators and confidants, the band approached the recording of upcoming album Wasted Now (out Sept 15th via Acrobat Unstable) knowing that change was brewing. Relocating band members and shifting personal lives meant that there was an air of “one last dance” as the four-piece stepped through the door at Philadelphia’s Headroom Studios to begin ten days of tracking that would run across the 2021 Thanksgiving period.
The resulting record is a testament to a decade of lessons learned and pulls off the rare mid-career trick of kicking bitterness and jaded frustration to the curb in favor of a joyful return to youthful enthusiasm. Fischer describes how the band members arrived at this record with a shared tacit agreement to “Do it right. Have fun. Make records how we always wanted to make records.” To this end, it was essential that engineer and producer Joe Reinhart be involved. Reinhart (who, beyond his recording accolades, made his name as a member of seminal emo troop Algernon Cadwallader, and since then has anchored guitar duties in Hop Along) produced the very first GLF EP, Attic Lights, in 2011 and is much beloved/trusted by the band. Someone who’s contribution, in Fischer’s words “lightened the mood and made the songs huge”.
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