Best of 2019 #3: Goon - Heaven is Humming (Partisan)

 Young Los Angeles-based band Goon are one of those bands that's not easy to describe with a couple of words. Goon mix garage rock, lo-fi, psychedelic, noise rock and even some electronics into their heady musical style. One song is not like the next song in this album. This is their fist album in their short career (they started in 2016), but they have a lots of EPs to their credit too. The album grabs you by the throat immediately with "P Jam", a noisy garage-rock tune with screamed vocals. By the time you get to the end, you've gone through solid psychedelic folk rock ("Snoqualmie"), grunge ("Datura"), 90s styled indy rock ("Check Engine Light") and more screamy punk ("Critter"). This is an intense and exhausting listen, but well worth your time and effort to dig deeper into the album.