Good Luck will release Big Dreams, Mister on October 17 via Lauren Records, marking the band's first full-length since 2011's Without Hesitation. The Bloomington group mixes emo revival with folk punk, indie rock, and power pop influences and has been appearing at reunion shows ahead of the release. The record was produced by Joe Reinhart and channels concentrated, pressure-free creativity alongside a desire to settle unfinished business. The songs deliver adventurous energy, unpredictable chord progressions that resolve into large, bouncy hooks, and lyrics that address parenthood, depression, and the confusion of existence with direct impact.
Their new record Big Dreams, Mister (the title of which should be read in the voice of an early 20th-century newsie) is their first in fourteen years, and it fucking rips. It exists in the rarified air of Superchunk's fantastic post-hibernation record Majesty Shredding and not those "why would they do this?" reunion records of beloved bands whomst shall go unnamed. It is equal parts highly-concentrated effort, pressure-free creativity and the thirst to settle unfinished business after the band stopped making music together in 2012.
Listening to Big Dreams, Mister feels like breathing clean air, like feeling love in a world of hate or any number of hyperbolic tropes music writers would bestow upon some rando to try and sell you some bullshit, but it's for real this time. The songs have an adventurous excitement to them. The band goes hard as chord progressions occasionally spiral up and down unpredictably and while teetering on the edge of chaos, they lock into some big bouncy hook,
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