"And if I had just one more day, here is all the Things That I would say to my baby: I can not explain the world to you, I can not explain the Things That people do - There is a thing called hate , and there's a Thing Called Love too And the love that I have for your mommy and for you -. And my baby, she Looked at me and she just smiled "(Just A Dream)
As a musician, this folk-rock singer-songwriter genre has it nowadays certainly not easy; many new things you will by Paul, Cat, John, Randy, Harry etc. simply can not enforce and although much then easily sounds like already existed before, succeed now and then to actually do something independent from the known recipes, without the wheel having to reinvent how GOON impressively proves - a pleasantly smooth, rich soul piano ballads dominated album.
"I moved to LA to play backup bass for a pop singer That job did not work out, but I ended staying in LA for four years -.. I wrote most of the songs on my album about my time spent in Goon LA. It was a reflection That included, like the most popular clichés of love, a tough break up. The first song I wrote on piano what did 'Just A Dream'. It was therefore one of my first attempts at singing. I have yet come to terms with my singing voice, but at the time I was left with no other option. [...] I owe the sound of the record to the great effort of everyone involved, The Producers Patrick Carney (The Black Keys), Ariel Rechstaid and musicians doing and playing things I could not and Treating the production with the same reverence I treat my songwriting. " (TJ Jr. / Stereogum 2014)
Tobias Jesso Jr. has his apparently mainly negative experiences in Hollywood soulful arrangements transforms that to emulate the great role models and rather strive instrumental minimalism and simplicity of the lyrics and vocals standing in the foreground. And among all the heavy contents Blues (How Could You Babe, WITHOUT YOU, BAD WORDS) there are also these refreshing irony in the form of inserted onomatopoeic "Buhuhuus" (crocodile tears) or the occasional hawking at exactly the places where you would really almost cried with. This is all so well done and balanced by the more positive pieces as occurring (FOR YOU, THE WAIT) that you want to go the same again at the beginning of the end of the 46 minutes of total playing time and may be curious as to what the future of a vocally more mature Tobias Jesso Jr. still everything will be heard.
