Good Morning Release New Surprise Album, 'The Accident'

Naarm/Melbourne duo Good Morning are ensuring you’re having a good morning indeed, sharing their surprise-announced new album, The Accident.

The record – their eighth to be released across the past decade – arrives only eight months after their most recent album, March’s fittingly-titled Good Morning Seven.

The nine-track collection is a testament to the creative partnership of the duo, which comprises Stefan Blair and Liam Parsons. The initial stages of the album took place behind the scenes of their last record, with a broken eight track tape machine necessitating a a strictly digital approach.

Soon, they embarked upon the challenge of booking studio time with nothing prepared, forcing the embrace of some self-induced discomfort where all the ideas came about via jamming together – “something that we’ve spent the better part of our adult lives avoiding,” they explain.

“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,” they explain. “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,” they add. “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 new record also arrives just ahead of a run of shows across Melbourne, including shows at The Corner and The Forum in support of Waxahatchee, and an appearance at the upcoming Meredith Music Festival.

Good Morning’s The Accident is out now.