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Can you introduce yourselves and tell us a bit about the band?
Michael: We’re a Midwest emo band from Tulsa. We formed a couple years back and have just been building momentum since. I hold down vocals, then we’ve got Frank, Chris Neal, and Devin on guitar, CJ on bass, and Chris Mayhew on drums. We’re all pretty down to earth and just kind of make music for the love of the art.
You released “Shifting Boulders” a couple months ago; what was the process of putting that song together?
Michael: “Shifting” fits into a group of songs that were pushed towards different members of the band taking the lead on arrangement and composition, so in this one Chris made most of the structure before bringing the song to the band for lyrics, leads, drums and accompaniment. I know after I came up with my chorus the rest of the lyrics fell together pretty quick.
Not long before that, you dropped “Caved In The Ocean.” Were these songs written at similar points, and was there a reason behind releasing them near each other?
Michael: “Caved” was written just on the heels of our “Sinking” release. It started out as just an exercise frank had made up and when he played it with the band we ended up writing out most of the song the day of. We really wanted to get “Caved” specifically released as we had sat on the song at that point for about a year, whereas “Shifting Boulders” gave a little more insight towards the sound from our new material so having both together let us show both of those sides.
Your EP “Sinking” will be turning two years old later this year. Can we expect another EP from Goodridge soon?
Frank: For sure, there’s going to be a next EP, most of last year we spent writing and re-writing. We’ve been in the studio since December working pretty hard on it, we plan to have it out by the end of this year, or early next year, but we are for sure dropping singles for everyone to enjoy along the way.
What is it about Tulsa that makes the scene different from other cities, in your experience as a band and a music fan?
Frank: The Tulsa music scene is big, beautiful, and diverse, bands are weirdly amazing in their own way here. I honestly think there’s something in the water right now, or maybe the fact that this market had been ignored for so long that we really put in the work to be seen or heard. You can hear the drive in the music, everyone in Tulsa is oozing with talent that needs to be heard.
