The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick put an orchestral spin on slowcore on their 2020 debut Ways of Hearing. Taking cues from Carissa’s Wierd and The World Is…, the LP was a stately companion to the sorts of music that peers like Horse Jumper of Love and Sign Crushes Motorist have built careers on. Four long years later, the Philly six-piece is back. Their sophomore album is titled — deep breath — The Iliad and the Odyssey and the Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, and it drops on April 25th.
We’re stoked to premiere the LP’s first single, and the band’s first song in four years, titled “April 25.” The song stretches out over five minutes, unwinding as it does and layering in strings and harmonies and gunfire percussion — it’d fit well on Ways of Hearing, but it’d be the liveliest track on that album by a wide margin.
Vocalist/guitarist Ben Curtwright shares:
The Iliad and the Odyssey and the Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is out April 25th on Count Your Lucky Stars.
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Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
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