Multi-artist Gabe Goodman has announced his debut album The Rock will drop on September 27th, ahead of the LP’s arrival he has shared the third single “Paul’s Auto Shop.” The producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist picked up his first guitar at just five years old, he has produced tracks for Maggie Rogers, Del Water Gap, and more. After spending the last few years primarily writing and producing for other artists, 2024 has seen Goodman make a compelling return to his own music. On the heels of his previously released singles “The Rock” and its b-side, “Magical Thinking.”

“”Paul’s Auto Shop” is about trying to fix what will always be broken—whether that be a 2002 Ford Taurus with a rat living in its cabin air filter or the most significant relationships in our lives, he shares. “There are a lot of things that love actually can’t conquer, but I wrote this about what has felt like my never-ending quest to test those limits. It’s about family and taking care of family. I like to think of it as music to drive to — windows down, check engine light on. This was the first song I wrote for my debut album, The Rock. I finished most of it in a few hours and then spent two years tweaking it.”

The Rock’s 10 tracks, co-produced with long-time collaborator Will G. Radin, Gabe directly addresses and grapples with some of his family’s most difficult experiences. Known for his honest songwriting, evidenced on 2021’s “Grand Caravan” — a song about his father’s car getting repossessed to grappling with his mother’s growing dementia on “The Villain.”

Goodman’s journey began early. From Guitar Center contests to performing on Bill Cosby’s Kids Say The Darndest Things, Goodman’s compass always seemed to point toward the arts. His mom would take shifts off of her job at Old Navy to take him to auditions in New York City, determined for him to find success as a child actor. After playing in bands in high school, he eventually left Brandeis University at age 20 to join 2010s synth-pop act Magic Man, walking out in the middle of a financial accounting final to embark on a summer tour supporting Panic! At the Disco—a sort of Jewish, early-Instagram-era twist on an Almost Famous-style tale. He would eventually move to New York, where he began releasing solo music in 2018 with his somber Dismissing the Gardener and began working with longtime friend S. Holden Jaffe on his Del Water Gap project. Together, the pair wrote and produced “Ode To A Conversation Stuck In Your Throat,” a pandemic-era breakout hit.

Gabe Goodman
The Rock
Tracklisting

Repeat
The Rock
Dreaming Is The Same As Living
Void Filling Guy
Circumstances
Paul’s Auto Shop
Magical Thinking
Keep Close
Once You Have The Knife
The Instrument

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