Artist: Goosebump
Songs: Piano Room (feat. Lee Rose) + She Don't Say Goodbye (feat. Ruhee Dewji + Jesse Locke)
Recorded at Lula Lounge, July 26, 2018.
Goosebump - She Don't Say Goodbye
Launching their new album under their new name (and with a new-ish keyboard player in the fold), it's easy to pitch these former Germaphobes as casting off in a new direction. But underneath that highly-marketable veneer of newness, there are plenty of continuities at hand here. Besides preserving the peanut-butter-and-chocolate songwriting stylings of Paul Erlichman and Neil Rankin that are at the band's heart, there were some more specific connections to past strands here, such as how the new Goosebump platter gives us finished versions of several songs that made their first rough-draft appearances in the Germaphobes-era "Heat Shuts Off Overnight" musical theatre one-off.
Meanwhile, as befits the special-occasion nature of an album-release show, the group brought out several guest performers to augment their sound, including Ace of Wands' Lee Rose on violin (allowing the group to tackle "Piano Room", which isn't normally in the live rotation) and Ruhee Dewji on sax and Jesse Locke on percussion to fuel the set's funky finale as heard here.
[Goosebump are playing tonight (September 16th) at Burdock, alongside Future States and L CON.]
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