Good Looks share new single, 'Bummer Year':
Bummer Year
, coming April 8 on Keeled Scales. The third single from the record after “Almost Automatic” and “Vision Boards,” “Bummer Year” finds the band slowing their folk-rock down and prettying it up, with frontman Tyler Jordan ruminating on American political division and prizing the shared humanity underneath it all: “No matter who you vote for, conservative or liberal / Through piles of god damn money, your voice don’t make a sound,” he warns.
“I couldn’t reconcile how these people I knew to be kind, caring and good could be swept up in the neo-fascist movement of Donald Trump,” Jordan recalls in a statement. “Here I was, deeply sad, partially because Donald Trump had just been elected president, and I was longing for the type of support and friendship that these folks had offered me in my teens.”
“Ultimately, what I came to is, it was a failure of the left and working class institutions for not being able to win over enough folks to their cause. If there’s going to be positive, substantive change in this country, it’s going to take convincing a large section of the working class by showing them where their interests truly lie,” Jordan continues.
Good Looks—Jordan , Jake Ames , Robert Cherry , and Phillip Dunne —will perform a series of showcases at next week’s SXSW, with a handful of Texas performances to follow, including a record release show at Austin’s at Hotel Vegas.13 – Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas 18 – Austin, TX @ Radio Coffee & Bar 08 – Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas