Good Looks
Good Looks is a bar band searching for common ground and yearning for a better system
Folk; Rock
Full Band 4pc
“On its debut album, the country-influenced Austin quartet raises open-ended questions about worry, doubt, and making a living in the gig economy.“ —Pitchfork
BIOGRAPHY
Good Looks hail from Austin by way of assorted small towns, and they sound like they’re barely suppressing their accents. Bummer Year is grounded in the indie rock from up in Denton, the outlaw country over at Armadillo World Headquarters, and the dramatically chiming guitars of Austin’s post-rock scene. With a subtle twang in his voice, Jordan has obviously listened to a lot of Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. He’s got a long way to go before he joins their ranks (who’s even close?), but he already has a knack for making the poetic sound plainspoken and the plainspoken poetic. He evokes the flat Texas desert as well as its hidden oases on “Balmorhea” and “First Crossing”: “I know a secret spot, clear water that can be got/Trespass half a mile, cross the road and go on awhile.” He sometimes lapses into sentimentality, but there’s usually a good riff or an unexpected hook to offset lines like “It’s hard to tell where your heart stops and my heart begins.”
Good Looks is a bar band searching for common ground and yearning for a better system
Folk; Rock
Full Band 4pc
“On its debut album, the country-influenced Austin quartet raises open-ended questions about worry, doubt, and making a living in the gig economy.“ —Pitchfork
BIOGRAPHY
Good Looks hail from Austin by way of assorted small towns, and they sound like they’re barely suppressing their accents. Bummer Year is grounded in the indie rock from up in Denton, the outlaw country over at Armadillo World Headquarters, and the dramatically chiming guitars of Austin’s post-rock scene. With a subtle twang in his voice, Jordan has obviously listened to a lot of Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. He’s got a long way to go before he joins their ranks (who’s even close?), but he already has a knack for making the poetic sound plainspoken and the plainspoken poetic. He evokes the flat Texas desert as well as its hidden oases on “Balmorhea” and “First Crossing”: “I know a secret spot, clear water that can be got/Trespass half a mile, cross the road and go on awhile.” He sometimes lapses into sentimentality, but there’s usually a good riff or an unexpected hook to offset lines like “It’s hard to tell where your heart stops and my heart begins.”
Good Looks is a bar band searching for common ground and yearning for a better system
Folk; Rock
Full Band 4pc
“On its debut album, the country-influenced Austin quartet raises open-ended questions about worry, doubt, and making a living in the gig economy.“ —Pitchfork
BIOGRAPHY
Good Looks hail from Austin by way of assorted small towns, and they sound like they’re barely suppressing their accents. Bummer Year is grounded in the indie rock from up in Denton, the outlaw country over at Armadillo World Headquarters, and the dramatically chiming guitars of Austin’s post-rock scene. With a subtle twang in his voice, Jordan has obviously listened to a lot of Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. He’s got a long way to go before he joins their ranks (who’s even close?), but he already has a knack for making the poetic sound plainspoken and the plainspoken poetic. He evokes the flat Texas desert as well as its hidden oases on “Balmorhea” and “First Crossing”: “I know a secret spot, clear water that can be got/Trespass half a mile, cross the road and go on awhile.” He sometimes lapses into sentimentality, but there’s usually a good riff or an unexpected hook to offset lines like “It’s hard to tell where your heart stops and my heart begins.”