Good Morning, the duo of Stefan Blair and Liam Parsons have released new album The Accident. The LP is their second of the year and follows previous release Good Morning Seven. The Accident was created From a broken eight track tape machine which necessitated a strictly digital approach, to taking on the challenge of booking studio time without a single pre-prepared song. Good Morning will appear at Meredith Festival this December alongside Jamie xx, Genesis Owusu, Mk.gee, and Waxahatchee, with whom they will reunite at her Tigers Blood Australia Tour sideshows in Naarm / Melbourne.

Good Morning on the new LP: “Somehow, we broke through the barrier of being vulnerable about our creativity (again) and got into the swing of writing together in a room for the first time in a long time. During this time we’re starting all the advance rollout work on Good Morning Seven and planning our next year. We’re not really fighters, (we’re way too passive for that), but given that we’re making a new record at the same time as already getting sick of thinking about the old one, an air of burn out and band related bum out seems to find its way into much of the lyrics. For the first time in a long time, there is no new Good Morning record being worked on as this one is coming out, and no plans to tour.”

The Accident is as much a product of indulging imagination, as it subconsciously comments on instinct and quiet confidence in the face of hard work. Highlights include “A Telephone Rings,” where truncated kooky percussion, warm whispers and triumphant guitars make for “another song about trying,” through to “Baby Steps,” a seemingly self-referential hymn of self belief – “It’ll work sometimes, It’s gotta work sometimes.” Wind and horn arrangements shine on the driving “Romance” and “Peaches,” a forlorn declaration of grace against twinkling flutes and nylon strings.

Embracing the moment and quietly gratified by the vulnerability of simply writing together – start to finish – in a room again, The Accident formed in three stages: instrumentals recorded in August 2023 at The Old Carpet Factory on the Greek island of Hydra amongst 40 degree celsius weather and late morning swims; lyrics added and mixing initiated in November 2023 at Stella Mozgawa’s Sunfair Studios in Joshua Tree, post co-headline tour with Frankie Cosmos; with final touches in February 2024 at Naarm / Melbourne’s York Street Recorders, Australia’s oldest running recording studio that Stefan co-operates while they rehearsed to support Waxahatchee across the US.

Good Morning
The Accident
Tracklist

Baby Steps
A Telephone Rings
Romance
Peaches
Thrills Of The Family Man
Perfect Fishing
The Grateful Dead
I Can’t Make It Up To You
Soft Rock Band

Order The Accident HERE