Good Grief? That name sounds familiar. A quick look in my record collection turned up a split 7″ with BUZZorHowl from 2013. I lost touch with the band from Liverpool after and was surprised to see their debut LP turn up just last week. One thing Good Grief are not? Prolific. Which I have no problem with at all, given the insane amount of music that is being released on a daily basis. I’ll take quality over quantity, and that is exactly what Good Grief delivers on Shake Your Faith.
The eleven songs on Shake Your Faith, just short of 40 minutes, will please the indie rock crowd that grew up loving punk rock. Most of the songs on the record are uptempo, full of punch and melody. In a sense, Good Grief are a throwback to the music of Bob Mould/Sugar (listen to standout How Can I Help Falling In Love), Superchunk (listen to standout The Pony Remark) and college rock pre 00s (listen to standout Metal Phase). The band also reminds me of melodic punkrockers Bodyjar and The Smoking Popes, particularly due to the vocals (listen to standouts High To Low and New Town). Rhetorically speaking: I guess you can’t truly speak of standout songs when they are the rule rather than the exception on a record or can you?
Shake Your Faith is a welcome surprise. It’s a record that is fun, anthemic and proof that three human beings rocking out on guitars, bass and drums will never get old. Out now through Everything Sucks and HHBTM Records.
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