GOING, by Gold Lamé

GOING

by Gold Lamé

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1.	STRING 02:34	buy track
2.	AFTERNOON 05:11	buy track
3.	CASCADE 03:49	buy track
4.	FROST 04:15	buy track
5.	MONSTERA 04:20	buy track
6.	FINGERS 04:03	buy track
7.	THUMP 04:29	buy track
8.	METAL 03:30	buy track

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Todd Goldstein and Matt LeMay began as rivals. Not the kind of rivals who are too different—the kind who are too alike, whose mere existence is a challenge to the other. They both played in cult NYC indie bands of the 2000s (Goldstein in Harlem Shakes and ARMS, LeMay in Get Him Eat Him and Kleenex Girl Wonder). They both wrote about music (Goldstein for record labels, LeMay as an early contributor to Pitchfork). They moved in adjacent circles and eyed each other from a distance.

Years passed. They got day jobs and partners. Goldstein began releasing ambient electronic music under his own name. LeMay focused on production work. Then, in 2019, they realized that they had both moved from the East Coast to the same quiet neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, just a few blocks apart. Their parallel lives had converged. Their mutual angst and envy had tuckered itself out. After finally meeting for a beer, the two began hashing out ideas in LeMay’s basement studio for a project that could channel their shared tastes and newfound alliance into something more adventurous and abstract than their previous projects.

On the cusp of this new chapter, the pandemic began. While others baked sourdough, read War and Peace, watched Love is Blind, Goldstein and LeMay emailed musical ideas to one another down the road. The resulting album, their debut as Gold Lamé, is called GOING.

GOING is an exuberant, open-hearted suite of instrumentals that blur the barriers between live performance and electronic production, evoking something like a flash photograph of a backyard at night. If GOING doesn’t sound like anything else, that’s because of how it was created—entirely over email, amid the loopiness of quarantine, with no rush from a label and no one to impress but each other. Drumkit-led tracks like “FINGERS” and “CASCADE” started as patterns LeMay would anxiously tap out while trying to fall asleep. They were then sculpted into compositions with arcs and well-earned crescendos, like Tortoise trying their hands at power pop. The entire mix of the gauzy, galloping “FROST” is side-chained to a track of LeMay’s breath. (“When I breathe in the highs get boosted; when I breathe out the lows get boosted.”) For the spiraling opening track “STRING,” Goldstein extracted a chord progression from a sequence of randomized guitar figures from LeMay, transforming a scribble of an idea into a soaring opening salvo.

Throughout its tight 32 minutes, GOING crackles with the thrill of discovery, channeling the youthful energy of their old bands and the try-anything spirit of 2000s indie rock into something more organic and strange. The former rivals’ giddy, “just say yes” approach is palpable as they build upon each others’ ideas, from electronic drones, to tin-foil percussion, to a random banjo. It’s music that rewards headphone-listening and conjures the tension between its creators’ solitude and connection.

In the end, Goldstein moved back to Brooklyn, and LeMay moved to London. True to its name, Gold Lamé’s GOING captures a time and a place and a feeling that is already disappearing as you listen. You can hear how this collaboration kept them going. You can zoom out on this neighborhood in Portland and see two houses in the middle of the night. They’re the only ones with their lights on.

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released October 7, 2022

Written, played, and recorded by Todd Goldstein and Matt LeMay
in their respective homes in Portland, OR
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Mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering
Art by Joan LeMay
Design by Todd Goldstein
Bio by Brent Katz

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Gold Lamé is a remotely recorded collaboration between Todd "Gold" Goldstein (TG, Arms, Harlem Shakes) and Matt "Lamé" LeMay (Get Him Eat Him, Kleenex Girl Wonder, The Moles).

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