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Doors: 7:00 PM
Show: 8:00 PM
Dream 3 Tour
GOON
Goon began in 2015 as singer and multi-instrumentalist, Kenny Becker’s, solo project,
releasing a compilation of his best home recordings, the 2016 EP Dusk of Punk. With a full band
in tow, Goon released the band’s first full-length, 2019’s Heaven is Humming on Partisan
Records. Becker recruited a new band—Andy Polito on drums, Dillon Peralta on guitar, and
Tamara Simons on bass—and recorded the self-released Paint By Numbers 1. A second LP, Hour
of Green Evening, soon followed, as well as another EP, Red Ladder, in 2022.
To support Hour of Green Evening, Goon hit the road hard, touring and playing shows
with Built to Spill, Jadu Heart, Slow Pulp, Teethe, Squirrel Flower, and many others. In the
midst of all this, the band signed with Philadelphia label Born Losers and began recording their
next LP with Claire Morison at Wild Horizon Sound in Los Angeles. Dream 3 melds the
intimate, lo-fi stylings of Goon with the live-band sound of Hour of Green Evening; a veteran
band exploring every aspect of their sound, pushing themselves into new musical and emotional
realms.
“I began this record so excited,” says Becker. “The songwriting was less scripted, letting
me loosen up the reins a little and follow whatever idea seemed most interesting. It started off as
a really joyful recording process. Then came the most devastating time of my life.”
The result is an often darker, more introspective album, built on personal loss and the
chaotic crumbling of the outside world, without losing Goon’s signature sense of strangeness and
wonder. Weaving lyrics about personal and ecological collapse with references to baseball,
aliens, and Tony Soprano, the record expands Goon’s sound while holding close to the core
identity of the band. Dream 3 offers an exquisitely crafted sonic world, one full of heartbreak and
pain, but also brimming with color and life, the hope of better days to come.
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