Good Morning Barnyard (Seafoam vinyl)

If there’s one thing we’ve come to expect from Good Morning’s output, it’s their staggered, separate but only possible with the help of the other, approach to songwriting between members Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair.

The creation and release of their sixth album, Barnyard, is the result of a process of patient refinement and the breaking of a couple of self-imposed rules. Thoughtful, catchy, idiosyncratic, and nearly twice the average length of their back catalogue, it’s all the things one might love about Good Morning, this time around presented with the fat trimmed and the edges sharpened. A milestone in the history of the band it’s also their most meditative record, thoughtful and careful in its evocations. Not too little and not too much, it’s just right – just Good Morning.