Posts Tagged ‘The Vacant Smiles’

“Goodwill” is the third Vacant Smiles album. Created to fill a gap left by our original third album—which will arrive sooner or later—and released only 27 days after our first recording session, it is an album that celebrates the glorious shining light of randomness, weirdness and wrongness that is so often trampled on by our 21st century lives. Especially in the face of the impending cyber-doom of the modern world, with the rise of smartphone abuse, addiction, egomania and shitty public transport, while monolithic companies tower over us with their supposed goodwill held close to themselves, Goodwill recognises that while cynicism may be increasingly becoming our default setting, we must open ourselves up to the imperfect mess that we’ve made and take time to rejoice in goodwill.

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The Band:
James Lynch – vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keys, percussion
Seamus Whelan – bass, vocals, percussion
Francis Tait – guitar, bass, percussion
Tom Clapp – drums

The Vacant Smiles is a band from Melbourne (Australia), The group became known to us in 2013 with a first album, Stupid Music, whose name already said all the good that we should think of them. The band have since released their new single, “Stones”. The Vacant Smiles, are a pop garage band that, inspired by the psychic scene, could be attached to the sixties. Their thing is the slacker pop that, without overplaying the genre, tells us that the cool was never on the cold side. Link to all slacker group articles Obviously, there is surfing in this Australian pop. Without evidence, there is also pop jangle, to believe that the Vacant Smiles have also listened to the Replacements, check out their bandcamp page for more goodies .

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Band Members
James Lynch
Seamus Whelan
Francis Tait
Aaron Pinto