Up to Anything

The Goon Sax - Up to Anything
Critic Score
Based on 10 reviews
2016 Ratings: #82 / 1004
User Score
Based on 58 ratings
2016 Rank: #354
Liked by 1 person
March 11, 2016 / Release Date
LP / Format
Chapter Music / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
The Guardian
It is a deceptively difficult trick, to capture the humanity and irregularities of music in a way that does not feel cloying, but over 12 tracks on their debut album Brisbane’s the Goon Sax manage it again, and again, and again. This is some kind of wonderful.
90
SPIN

Sweetly alienated knockouts like “Ice Cream (On My Own)” and “Sometimes Accidentally” lend a gravitas to twee as shruggily out of place in 2016 as Tallulah was in 1987 — and every bit as necessary.

90
The Line of Best Fit
This is pop music as it should be: simple, unvarnished, young but world-weary, and ultimately timeless.
80
NME

The Brisbane teenagers’ debut album ‘Up To Anything’ – an endearingly simple and quietly profound telling of a suburban adolescence – is near-flawless guitar pop.

80
Loud and Quiet
‘Up To Anything’ is some of the most brilliantly, brutally adolescent pop music to emerge in a very long time. I hope they never grow up.
70
Pitchfork

Each song is well-structured and wise beyond its years while the messages are confused, delicate and very, very teenage. This is the sound of growing up smart.

70
AllMusic
It's an impressive debut, one that should easily win over fans of simple and true indie pop, and also one that promises great things in the future.
70
FasterLouder

The trio of Brisbane teenagers all share songwriting duties on their debut album, Up to Anything, and a millennial apathy prevails as the jangle pop three-piece churn out their terse hook-laden compositions.

cstuart
75

one of my favorite debut albums

NervousYoungMan
84

Up to anything is simply pop perfection. Weird, quirky and annoyingly catchy. The same formula seems to be repeated throughout the album but never fails to make you groove.

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Added on: March 18, 2016