Album artwork for Mirror II by The Goon Sax
Album artwork for Mirror II by The Goon Sax
Album artwork for Mirror II by The Goon Sax
Album artwork for Mirror II by The Goon Sax
Album artwork for Mirror II by The Goon Sax

Since forming in high school, Brisbane band The Goon Sax—the trio of Riley Jones, Louis Forster, and James Harrison, best friends who take turns writing, singing, and playing each instrument— have been celebrated for their unpretentious, kinetic homemade pop. Mirror ll, The Goon Sax’s first album for Matador, is something else entirely: a new beginning, a multi-dimensional eclectic journey of musical craftsmanship that moves from disco to folk to no wave skronk with staggering cohesion. Gone are the first-person insecurities of their school days—they’ve been made expansive, more universal, more weird.

Mirror II is intense, the sum of everything that has always made The Goon Sax great: robust sprech- gesang, raw lyrical candor, ascending guitar pop structures that would make the most storied jangle bands blush, elevated into their newfound narrative verisimilitude and expanded sonic xperiment-tations. Each member’s idiosyncratic style comes across on record: Riley’s bubblegum noise is more present than ever before, Louis’ moody, super- natural avant-pop, and James’ psychedelic folk.

The Goon Sax

Mirror II

Matador
Album artwork for Mirror II by The Goon Sax
CD

$15.99

Released 07/09/2021Catalog Number

CD-OLE-1623

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Album artwork for Mirror II by The Goon Sax
LP +

$24.99

Indie Exclusive

White Vinyl

Released 07/09/2021Catalog Number

OLE-1623-LPE

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The Goon Sax

Mirror II

Matador
Album artwork for Mirror II by The Goon Sax
CD

$15.99

Released 07/09/2021Catalog Number

CD-OLE-1623

Learn more
Album artwork for Mirror II by The Goon Sax
LP +

$24.99

Indie Exclusive

White Vinyl

Released 07/09/2021Catalog Number

OLE-1623-LPE

Learn more

Since forming in high school, Brisbane band The Goon Sax—the trio of Riley Jones, Louis Forster, and James Harrison, best friends who take turns writing, singing, and playing each instrument— have been celebrated for their unpretentious, kinetic homemade pop. Mirror ll, The Goon Sax’s first album for Matador, is something else entirely: a new beginning, a multi-dimensional eclectic journey of musical craftsmanship that moves from disco to folk to no wave skronk with staggering cohesion. Gone are the first-person insecurities of their school days—they’ve been made expansive, more universal, more weird.

Mirror II is intense, the sum of everything that has always made The Goon Sax great: robust sprech- gesang, raw lyrical candor, ascending guitar pop structures that would make the most storied jangle bands blush, elevated into their newfound narrative verisimilitude and expanded sonic xperiment-tations. Each member’s idiosyncratic style comes across on record: Riley’s bubblegum noise is more present than ever before, Louis’ moody, super- natural avant-pop, and James’ psychedelic folk.