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Alternative band Good Terms has debuted a brand new cover of Blondie’s “Call Me”. Their explosive version of the iconic track was crafted as part of Musora’s On The Spot Series, in which artists are brought into the studio and given a surprise song to reimagine in their own style. Watch as Good Terms works out their version of “Call Me” here: https://youtu.be/2H6BVOsXQJY. Fans can also stream the cover, which is now out via Secret Friends Music Group, here: https://orcd.co/goodtermscallme. Furthermore, all Bandcamp proceeds from the song will be donated to vocalist Brian McShea and fiancée Stephanie Raynor’s GoFundMe, started after the couple lost their home in the California wildfires. Their story has since captured national attention, providing hope and inspiration amidst the terrible tragedies.
“My favorite part of how this cover turned out was the process! It was so different for us; usually songs take over a year to be completed, and we almost never arrange things all together in a room with our instruments. It was a great feeling to start with an already-written song and just work out what we thought would be fun to play (and easy enough to arrange and remember well enough to play live in just one session),” shares vocalist/guitarist Brian McShea. “Moments like Geo and I working out the screaming and Zach writing a breakdown by himself while we all muted him until he was ready to show us usually happen over the course of many months, and to have them happen simultaneously was such an easy care-free feeling. If I had to pick an actual moment of the arrangement as my favorite, it would definitely be the second pre-chorus, where Geo and I trade screams over solo drums with some big chord stabs. It’s so hardcore and fun to perform.
Adds guitarist Zach Boucher: “Honestly, going into this experience was a little terrifying for me. I love the jam and collaborative live arranging, and I have done that more with the other guys in the room (in different bands/scenarios) than I have with most other people in my life, but Good Terms as a band had never done something like this together before. Going into this, I felt a pressure to deliver something 'Good Terms' with a process totally foreign to us, but the result was ultimately the furthest thing from my fears. Getting a result that is decidedly 'Good Terms' has only ever been achieved by me being able to sit alone with a song on my computer and write, re-write, tinker, etc. for as long as I felt necessary, but this arrangement we created together is actually one of the most genuinely 'Good Terms' sounding things we’ve ever made. Musora created the most comfortable and seamless environment for us to be creative in. The pressure and the deadline were extremely freeing, we knew we had to end the day with something finished that kicked ass and we did just that. Because of this experience, we’ve already discussed ways that we’d like to incorporate this type of workflow into our creative process for new songs. It makes me feel a little silly that we haven’t been doing this together since day one.”
Musora Content Director Ron Jackson also expressed his excitement at working with Good Terms: “I’ve been a fan of Good Terms for a while because they bring the full package—tight chemistry, strong communication, and a deep understanding of music. They grasp what it means to be a band today, from the humor to the hustle of self-promotion on social media. They’re natural on camera, and I knew their intensity would do well with our audience. I couldn’t be more excited for this episode—it’s going to be an absolute banger!”
Good Terms recently announced that they would be supporting Youth Fountain on the band’s spring headline tour, kicking off on May 28th. Tickets are on sale now and available at https://goodtermsband.com/tour.
About Good Terms:
Good Terms are back with a new album Burnout, it is the sound of a band dismantling any preconception of who they are and what they sound like, putting every musical option back on the table and diving headfirst into every unorthodox influence. Good Terms formulated 12 songs that are completely unique from each other and then sowed every piece back together into one cohesive work with multiple intertwining lyrical themes of identity, alienation, and perspective. Burnout is anxious, hopeful, confused, angsty, longing, joyous, loving, regretful, pissed, wistful, sincere, and cathartic. It juxtaposes moments that feel like the sonic recreation of the dread meme with others that feel like the triumphant ending scene of The Land Before Time. This album will have you simultaneously clearing your sinuses from extreme levels of stank face, dusting off your old air guitar, wanting to do spin kicks in your living room, reconnecting with your younger self, and wishing that you took an extra bite of your crazy aunt’s special brownie. It’s mosh-ready, 420-friendly, and hell yeah brother approved.
Burnout is supported with nearly half their album spinning on stations as SiriusXM Faction Punk and idobi Radio on rotation and North American tours including a recent sold out direct support tour with Hawthorne Heights and west coast tour with Driveways earlier this month. The album began to take shape when the song "Cough" took a viral whirlwind leap in July 2024 and has soared as the band's go-to jam. You can find Burnout in vinyl shops as Banquet Records, Rough Trade (EU/UK), Amoeba Records, Fingerprints Records, and many more.
“Burnout is the most stupidly ambitious thing that I’ve ever tried to create. We didn’t know exactly what kind of band we wanted to be going into this, we just knew we wanted to be ‘us,’ and the pursuit of that was not easy. We tried to eliminate any notion of “we can’t do that” and just ask ourselves “why not?” at every creative impasse. The album is called Burnout mostly because of the intersection of all the lyrical themes, but it’s also because after producing this album and pouring over every single note and transient, this album has genuinely taken everything out of me. We made 12 songs that we didn’t know how to make going in, and we did it all completely by ourselves. Every single song was written, performed, produced, and mixed by members of Good Terms. The back and forth nearly broke us many times, but I think the end result is something undeniably singular. I am so damn proud of what my friends and I created together here.“ - producer and guitarist of Good Terms - Zach Boucher
Good Terms is:
Brian McShea - Lead Vocals & Guitar
Zach Boucher - Guitar & Vocals
Ivan Barry - Guitar & Vocals
Geo Botelho - Bass & Vocals
Brendan McCusker - Drums
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