Car and Driver's folk gospel of light and darkness on "Good God"

"try to understand"

Good God by Car and Driver based out of Brooklyn, New York feels like a folk confessional of sorts with waves of avant garde orchestration. The tone is part gospel and part lullaby but the big sway, the big build up of sounds, ambient altercations feel almost mantra like too, even eerily destructive. It is like when we are breaking down or not thinking clearly, the last thing you want to hear are godly advice. When the discordant sounds flood in like uncomfortable, broken spells, the song implodes, folds in on itself. It feels like Zappa-esque breakdown of order, like anti-music or maybe like an anxiety attack. 

-Robb Donker Curtius








THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

Car and Driver
Brooklyn, New York

This song is a declaration of many of the things I've learned in recent years. It is an homage of sorts to Moondog, as well as others, structured as a list of sayings and truisms that I used to roll my eyes at, but after much growth have realized are true.

There is an entire contextual backstory regarding mental illness, relationship problems and dysfunctional family that have all played into the last year of my life, during which I feel I have begun to develop my sound and lyrical style to reflect my history, influences and personal taste, as well as my personal and career goals.