Brooklyn Post Rock Band Good Looking Friends Stream Debut LP, SETTLE IN, DECAY via The Alternative

Brooklyn-based post rock band, Good Looking Friends, share the first listen of their upcoming release of their debut album, Settle In, Decay, today on The Alternative. "Decay sounds like its actively avoiding all of the recent emo trends, simply using the idiom's confessional lyricism and drab moods as a springboard to leap toward other sounds," says The Alternative, while explaining Good Looking Friends' "multifaceted, emo-by-way-of-everything-that's-not-emo sound."

The LP is out this Friday, April 6th via Old Press Records and the band will play a special release show for fans at Bushwick Public House that night, followed by another Brooklyn show at Muchmore's on April 20th. They're also gearing up for their Canadian debut at the Pouzza Festival from May 17-20th.

All Things Go premiered the first video from the album for single, "Front Porch," saying, "This modern chill-punk single is accompanied by a video that follows the somewhat candid morning of our band in question as they gear up for the fight of their lives - illegal staring contests. The underground bouts take stage with painted faces and looks set to kill while creamy string transitions and seamless drums remind us of this era's refined tone and expertise behind the wheel."

Good Looking Friends' debut LP, Settle In, Decay, explores themes of resistance and memory distortion in a reality of uncertain perception. Rust and water-rot fade like memories of bad tattoos or flash websites. Gutted apartment buildings decay alongside unread books and dirty shoes unworn and forgotten. Stale beer and hangovers cloud mornings. Paunch, rheumatic knuckles, and first gray hairs clog the drain in an apartment that never quite felt like home. The record is part autobiography and part something not quite, drawing from influences ranging from massive cinematic orchestral post rock to jangly, uptempo indie-rock with a distinct nod to the group's lo-fi roots.

Settle In, Decay was recorded over a 2 week period in August 2017 at Restoration Sound studios by Lorenzo Woolf and Dara Hirsch. It was mixed by Chris Teti (TWIABP) at Silver Bullet Studios and mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio. Accompanying the album is a text-based choose-your-own adventure game (goodlookingfriends.us/GLFLP) that allows listeners to customize their track listing and listening experience by interfacing with short vignettes that explore the themes listed above. The record itself is a loose concept album that can be interpreted many ways, playing with the relationship between place and memory, recollection and self deception. Like previous releases, there is a healthy mix of instrumental builds and lyrical intensity that explores those themes (musical and literal) more broadly

TOUR DATES

4/07 - Bushwick, NY - Bushwick Public House

(Release show w/ Nervous Dater, Stay Inside, Weakened Friends)

4/20 - Williamsburg, NY - Muchmore's

517-5/20 - Pouzza fest and additional MTL, Quebec show

Brooklyn-based indie rock group Good Looking Friends announce their debut LP, Settle In, Decay, due out April 6th via For It! Records. The band released two EPs, You Won't Die and You Won, in 2016, which received accolades from Consequence of Sound, Culture Collide, The Deli, Brooklyn Vegan, and more. The band spent 2017 on the road and strengthening the DIY scene in Brooklyn, as well as developing what has become their signature wall of sound. The new record explores themes of resistance and memory distortion in a reality of uncertain perception. The record is a surreal reimagining of modern life in a wilderness of asphalt and corrugated steel, drawing from influences ranging from massive cinematic orchestral post rock to jangly, uptempo indie-rock with a distinct nod to the group's lo-fi roots.

Good Looking Friends is Zach Fischer, Sean Nolan, Adam Rossi, and Nick Kwas; augmented by cellist Maddie Bouissou and French jazz singers Lucille Bitan and Celine Boudier as often as possible. The band has been playing in Brooklyn for the past 4 years, creating safe spaces, growing venues, and supporting local charities with benefit shows and collaborations all over the eastern US and Canada. Good Looking Friends has 5 short tours in the works for the summer, generating buzz alongside Nervous Dater, Stay Inside, Great Wight, Concrete Concrete, Steve., and Taking Meds.

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