Good Good Great!, by lightheaded

Good Good Great!

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Fran Carlyon Been waiting for this one. Essential jangle, a gentle sigh of end-of-Summer melody and one of the purest vocals I’ve heard doing this kind of a thing in a LONG time. Magic 💜 Favorite track: Love Is Overrated.

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1.	Mercury Girl 03:50	buy track
2.	Orange Creamsicle Head 03:25	buy track
3.	The Garden 01:53	buy track
4.	Patti Girl 02:15	buy track
5.	Love Is Overrated 04:30	buy track

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New Jersey's Lightheaded have conjured, through some mysterious alchemy, a distinctive flavor of pop that draws as much from 60s Brill Building, garage-pop and folk-pop as it does from the DIY indie explosion of the 80s/early 90s. Their debut EP "Good Good Great!" shows that band core Cynthia and Stephen are clearly students of pop in all its permutations, but they wear their influences lightly -- a typical Lightheaded song could have been released in 1966 or 1986, but in fact sounds just right in 2023!

The sound has just right amount of elemental murk, drawing to mind a mythical collab between Phil Spector and Curt Boettcher's Sagittarius, working their way through the Goffin & King songbook. Cynthia's rich vocals are the secret weapon here, possessing a depth and swing that can handle with aplomb the sprightliest pop or the tear-jerkingest drama.

From the melodic sweep of EP opener "Mercury Girl" to the folky jangle of "The Garden," to the just-so cover of teen pop obscurity "Patti Girl" and the Shangri-Las-esque closer "Love Is Overrated," "Good Good Great!" introduces us to a band with a most unique take on pop and more than whets the appetite for their debut album, due in early 2024.

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released October 13, 2023

Recorded/produced by Kevin Basko at Historic New Jersey.

Cover photo by Luke Ivanovich.

All songs by band, except Patti Girl by Gary and the Hornets

Band
Cynthia Rittenbach - Bass and Vocals
Stephen Stec - Guitar and Words
Sara Abdelbarry - Guitar and Harmony
Erin Turner - Strings

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