Votiv Music, in partnership with Freakout Records, and Seattle-based indie-rock band My Goodness are pleased to present “Elevators,” the massive, atmospheric centerpiece to the band’s forthcoming full-length studio album titled Scavengers. Out Friday, June 2, Scavengers represents an ambitious, stylistic shift from the boisterous, bluesy, hard-rocking fare the band’s original duo of Andy Lum and Joel Schneider offered on its debut, Shiver + Shake. With a few lineup additions and internal instrumental changes, the band have completed work on Scavengers, a glistening body of work that incorporates a number of different elements new to the band but wealthy in its execution. Scavengers is available for pre-order now via iTunes and Apple Music HERE.
“We did things a little differently on this record in terms of how we wrote the songs,” explains Schneider. “Andy was way more involved and we didn’t really do much inside the practice space. Instead, we were really using technology to write songs in a way that opened up more opportunities for us to adjust structures and rework songs using Logic so we could really produce our own songs. It was a really cool, new experience.”
“There was a lot of trial and error,” adds Lum, “so we started having more conversations about ‘What if we add this, this and this here?’ It was a new exercise for Joel and I as a band, and when we were going through it we started to wonder if we were becoming less of a rock band, but when it’s translated onstage, it’s clear we definitely still are. Joel and I had a show here in Seattle in August last year and I remember just being like, ‘Well, here goes….’ We were pumped to play new songs for people, but understand that Shiver + Shake had established us as a loud blues-rock band. But we got a great response, even though we only played two of our old songs.”
That’s precisely because My Goodness is the same band it ever was. The band didn’t reinvent itself, just reinterpreted what it was, adding to the foundations that were already there. And while the pair says they were on unfamiliar ground doing so, learning as they went along, Scavengers is an incredibly accomplished record. It harks back to the visceral power of that first album, but marches confidently forward, brimming with new ideas and sounds. It’s the record the pair always wanted to make, but weren’t entirely sure how until now. To that end, it’s a perfect compromise between what was and what will be, the sound of a band searching for – and finding – who it really is.
“We definitely made the conscious decision to not hold back with this record,” says Schneider. “We were careful not to limit ourselves at all, and I think that mentality was important in getting the best songs out of us. We wanted these songs to be us.”
My Goodness will be making the following appearances throughout the month of June. Dates below with more to be announced shortly.
JUNE
06 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
23 – Bellingham, WA – The Shakedown
