‘Good Times Bad Times’ by Franklin Gotham is a 5-track bright pop EP that celebrates nostalgia and all its facades. Each track though bright with guitar melodies explore the expanse of emotions that seem to tag along when one reminisces on times gone past.
Emotions feel a bit far off, strong ones observed and constant ones jotted down. The EP captures the good times and the bad, by describing them in lieu of emotionally processing them.
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‘Good Times Bad Times’: Track-by-Track
‘Good Times Bad Times’: ‘Like A Guitar’ – ‘Life in a Northern Town’
The EP begins with ‘Like A Guitar’, a bright track that captures nostalgia in heartache. The song tells the story of a love that has broken our narrator’s heart in the past. “…She played me like a guitar (in) an old pawn shop…”, this ex-lover “…loves you when she needs you…”.
This track reminisces on this love, almost serving as space of warning and emotional catharsis. The mood carried here seems to follow ‘Good Times Bad Times’ down the order. Bittersweet.
‘Caroline’ reminisces on a love found “…deep inside my bones…”, with a sound that is dark, energetic and almost mysterious. “…You’re on my mind most of the time Caroline…”. But it’s also a love that feels out of their league, “…she’s on another level…”, and feels as though it was let go of at some point.
‘Life in a Northern Town’ reflects on a time and place that feels nostalgic to the narrator. A time when things were simpler and days were longer, accentuated by brightness tinged in wistfulness and strings.
The short cover of ‘Time After Time’ by Cyndi Lauper at the end really captures the wistful melancholy of a by-gone era, familiar and specific at the same time.
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‘Good Times Bad Times’: ‘Needles Won’t Sew’, ‘Star Words’ and Conclusion
‘Needles Won’t Sew’ is a song that reflects on what feels like the true cost of healing. The lyrics describe unbreachable resistance to healing that reminiscing on the past inevitably brings. “…When mending wounds, the needles won’t sew…”.
The song’s sound holds in it a darkness, mysterious and melancholy. Its mood feels wistful and potent, restless in a way that edges on desperate. “…The head holds the heart, but the heart wants to go…”. The track is a definite highlight on the EP.
The final track on the EP, ‘Star Words’, is one that splices together audio from and around ‘Star Wars’, using the sounds to evoke nostalgic and close to feel good emotions. It pieces together the emotions that engaging with an IP like ‘Star Wars’ evokes, ending this collection dipped in nostalgia on a bright yet close to wistful note.
Something about the track evokes a time lost by pulling together media made in that lost time.
‘Good Times Bad Times’ by Franklin Gotham seems to capture nostalgia in a bottle, in a way. Bright melodies give way to wistful reminisces, whole, almost unfiltered andn familiar.
An Evocative, Bright and Nostalgia-ridden EP.
The Artist
Franklin Gotham is a trio who melds power pop and Americana with strong melodies, masterful compositions, beautiful vocals and clever-lyrics. Their music features upbeat, simple storytelling complemented by minimal production.
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