The Goodbye Summer Reveal “Sad Boy Buzz Words” EP

A place can carry memory, visceral reactions that evoke a sense of time and space. Like ghosts in the fog or passing ships in the night, returning to an area with an emotional connection retracts a long veiled tether between the self and a former life. That is the case with Kentville, Nova Scotia’s The Goodbye Summer and their debut self-titled EP, a love-letter to home, and a kaleidoscope of emotions that come with leaving it. The Goodbye Summer are a genre hybrid that serve as a loving throwback to the turn of the century changes in pop-punk and the rise in emo in the mid 2000s. Tips of the proverbial hat to bands such as Blink-182, Taking Back Sunday, Fall Out Boy, Rise Against, New found Glory and Ten Second Epic can be found across the Sad Boy Buzz Words EP

Not content to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic resting on the laurels of their critically praised self titled debut album, the trio quickly set to work releasing the “rough and ready” Sad Boy Buzz Words EP, mere months after the release of their debut full length. Recorded, mixed and mastered by the trio, the EP presents a live off the floor quality, and a renewed grit and bite to the band, trading in some of the melancholy of their self-titled for the sweat infused hysteria of their live performance. Fast, raw and full of heart, Sad Boy Buzz Words is the perfect compliment to the introspective journey of their summer debut, though a return to those roots and tug-on-the-heartstrings youth in revolt angst could be in order in 2022.

“We were so dragged out by the end of that first record, it took so long to do it, that with the Sad Boys record we just said fuck it. I’m going to show up at seven o’clock and by midnight the song is completely recorded and done. I think you can really hear that on the EP. It’s live off the floor. It’s kind of sketchy and it lands. While we were doing Sad Boys we also recorded an acoustic EP with all new songs, five songs. And LP two is totally in the works. If that first one’s a concept album, this one is an extension of it reflecting back. I think we’re going to try to do it more like Sad Boys, with that rough and ready energy in there. That’s definitely what we’re going for. It’s fast, angry letters to your high school girlfriend.”

Sad Boy Buzz Words is now available via streaming platforms including Spotify and Apple Music