Psych Band Good Doom Releases 11 Minutes of New Music
Following in Beyonce’s footsteps, Good Doom surprise released their landmark debut, Naps, on New Year of 2016. It was a vibrato fueled psych rock affair with tight riffs on just about every track.
Fast forward five months. A lot has happened: Ted Cruz gave up, Prince and David Bowie died, Good Doom wrote five new songs.
Their new EP, Hug, is more ambient and experimental, less hook oriented, still lots of tight riffs. There’s some envelope filter on this one, and far crunchier synth work.
Overall impressions, if you’re looking for the hits you still have Naps. Hug is a medium for more earnest expression, and showcases Good Doom bringing goods back to the castle on their quest for originality and crunchiness. They still bring you the tunes, but even the hits on this one are drenched in a dare I say artistic sense of playfulness. These are the kind of kids who often strike gold jamming. Their debut found them refining these golden jams into a psych pop Renaissance. Their new EP is most impressive because in a short five months of being a band, Good Doom is already refusing to repeat itself.
The brilliance of how short their EPs are is that you have literally 0 minutes to get sick of Good Doom and ten minutes to fall in love. The sonic contrast between their two releases makes the prospect of a 20–30 minute release from them seem all the more exciting and promising.
Sean Pages gives Hug a 2/2 rating.