Good Service - Please
GOOD SERVICE DROPS PLEASING ‘PLEASE’
Noah Fardon, aka Good Service, drops Please today, an album rife with haunting lyrics and deliciously radiant harmonics.
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Additional recording and synthesizers were provided by Vaughn Hunt; Jamie Joyce played drums; followed by more recording and mixing by Roger Moutenot.
Born in Nashville, Fardon attended an all-male school, where he found emotional release at a nearby coffee shop frequented by a bevy of unique individuals. Propped up by their appetite for life, he began guitar lessons, followed by forming a band. Eventually the band dissolved, and Fardon moved to Maine, followed by a move to Portland, where he ensconced himself in a nine-foot by seven-foot studio, writing and recording for two years.
The product of those two years of isolation is Please, bookended by “And a Foot” and “The End.” Between the bookends, Fardon explores the death of his grandmother, anxiety, regret, and emotional despondency, seeking for meaning to life. As the album proceeds from song to song, Fardon narrates his determination to cherish life, yet struggles with life’s temptations.
At “The End,” Good realizes life is composed of constant change, topped by variables upon variables, and each person must unearth who they are prior to burial beneath earth. Thus the end is not finality, but a starting point.
'Please' is gorgeously put together, full of swelling washes of luminous hues, wonderfully original rhythms, and persuasive vocals.
Comprising nine-tracks, the not-to-be-missed tracks on the album include “And a Foot,” opening on discordant flavors full of piercing melancholic tones flowing into psychedelic alt-rock dynamics. There’s a lingering harshness to the song, complex and declarative.
“Twenty-three, obsessed with death, regretful of the only love I’ve left, I smoke as much as fills my chest, but I’m trying to get right again.”
“Summer Muses” opens on gleaming guitars traveling on a contagious rhythm, as Fardon’s high tenor fills the lyrics with tasty dulcet timbres. A British Invasion filament runs through the tune, along with glistening electro-pop savors.
“Ira, Lila” opens on a searing array of colors, undulating with eerie surface textures, before seguing into an alt-rock-flavored melody with tinctures of pop highlights. “Pocket Calendars” rides new wave electro-pop and dream-pop flavors, as spangled guitars deliver lustrous accents. A shimmering breakdown shifts the harmonic flow, injecting softer intonations, rippling with glassy colors.
“The End” features glowing dream-pop polish, light and almost gossamer, as Fardon’s elegantly graceful tones glide overhead.
Please is gorgeously put together, full of swelling washes of luminous hues, wonderfully original rhythms, and persuasive vocals. This is an excellent album, creative, and sonically pleasing.
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