Goonies Never Say Die - In A Forest Without Trees (2010)

Cinematic is as dead-on as any reasonable description for the fifty minute instrumental debut by Blackpool, England's Goonies Never Say Die. An adventurous, stunning piece of work, In A Forest Without Trees is an intricate mixture of progressive rock and atmospherics doused with an emotional to and fro that pulls and releases in all the right places. Balancing lush, minor landscapes of sound with big swathes of noisy, fire-peaked crescendos, Goonies make the quieter bits sound every bit as compulsive as the explosive highlights. This is headphone music at its finest: swelling dynamics, colorful interludes, thick melodies…like a fireworks display, only sometimes in slow motion. "There is really no constant theme to the album. It was written as ten separate pieces of music, hence the emotional rollercoaster theme to it all" says guitarist Barry Parkinson. "There are happy moments and sad moments…pretty much the way life is really. We wanted the album to remain open to interpretation" says Parkinson

Tracklist:
01. Introducing… (01:10)
02. This One Took Forever (06:10)
03. Don't Fight The Fire, Fuck The Arsonist (06:04)
04. Everyone Comes To Life (04:16)
05. Get All Your Ducks In A Row (07:05)
06. The Scene Where Everyone Dies (03:39)
07. Sometimes It's Not So Bad (04:58)
08. When Middle Eights Migrate (04:29)
09. Say That It's Something (05:40)
10. I Know, I Know, I Know (05:59)