With a message posted across social media, it was all over.
After nine years and three albums, Brisbane band The Goon Sax have decided to call it a day. The announcement came almost exactly a year after the release of their third album, Mirror II, and not so long before they were due to do a North America stint supporting Interpol and Spoon.
Formed in 2013 as a bedroom band, by high school friends Louis Forster (son of Go-Betweens founder, Robert) and James Harrison, they were joined the following year by Riley Jones, after she had taken drum lessons for a month.
Their first two singles, Sometimes Accidentally and Boyfriend, were released towards the end of 2015 by Chapter Music, before critically acclaimed debut album Up To Anything came out in April 2016.
We're Not Talking followed in 2018, before what turned out to be the last album, Mirror II hit the stores in July 2021.
After building up a steady following and no small amount of praise from music critics - Matilda Edwards, writing in the NME, called Up To Anything, "near flawless guitar pop" - it seems a shame that they have decided to move on now, just as they seemed to be building up a head of steam. But everyone has their reasons, and the modern music system doesn't always pay out fairly, so perhaps it is good that they have gone out on a relative high.
We wish the three of them the best of luck in whatever comes next.
In the meantime, I have picked out a couple of their tunes for you to have a look and listen to - I hope you like it as much as I did.
Boyfriend - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilBf_nZbxvw
She Knows - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74rle2BidY8
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