Glory (Brown Vinyl) (2022 Reissue)
Melbourne duo Good Morning are one of the select few acts with a distinctive ability to take a sound and mold it to their personality. Their forthcoming EP, Glory contains a small group of gems that are a result of this divine marriage of ageless inspiration and new creation.
Sleepy opener Overslept warms you slowly like wrapping yourself in a chrysalis of blankets on a winter’s night and moves through evolving sections with ease. Whilst there is an obvious pretense of modern slacker rock throughout the EP, with easygoing tempos and Demarco-esque wonky guitar leads, Glory has far more to offer sonically than so many releases of the same inclination. Cuts like the EP’s first single Cab Deg are well within this vein and is one of the simpler tunes from the record melting into the listener’s brain with its constant groove and trancelike repetition.
Further into Glory, a greater depth in the duo’s songwriting is uncovered with gentle wavering Give Me Something to Do which in its easy first half creates more atmosphere with two chords and minimal movement in arrangement than many can hope to do with a symphony orchestra. The tune is reminiscent of some of Pink Floyd’s more gentle tracks with a sweet double sax solo slithering between each beat effortlessly and almost Beatles-like harmonies warming the cockles of your heart like a sip of hot tea. The song later flows into a second movement that begins to drive forth and reintroduce the twisted warble of guitar leads and pulsating bass lines that stroll leisurely along the drum beat. Lyrically, too, Glory brings exciting truth and familiar existential wanderings into everyday life and woes of hypochondria.
Glory is full of surprises, where one minute you’re laying comfortably in the soft grass of familiarity, soon you’re disturbed in the most comforting way possible by a piano interlude soaked in reverb and thoughtful minimalism. Dissonance brief enough to give brighter meaning to softer sounds and simplicity abundant enough to highlight the complexity of the songwriting and depth of creation are hallmarks of great music and are heard constantly on Glory.
