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[embedded content] Fans of early Talking Heads albums, listen up. This group of teenagers from Brisbane could be your favorite new band. The Goon Sax frontman Louis Forster sings with a

David Byrne-like delivery when he says the line that won me over, to his tenuous lover: "Let's get nervous in your room again." That's the moment I turned up the volume.

As often as songs tackle the subject of love, (the wanting, the yearning, the rejection) what's often missing is earnestness. The Goon Sax are full of that and a dose of humor as well.

"Make Time 4 Love" is a song about defeat. Louis Forster wrote to say it's also about "learning to live with yourself and accepting that everyone's impulses seem

irrational to someone else." Musically the Australian trio of James Harrison, Louis Forster and Riley Jones, takes creative impulse from '80s, punky dance bands. "It was

really inspired by [the bands] ESG and Liquid, Liquid, who we were all listening to a whole lot. And we just wanted to make the song really dancey." In fact, Louis Forster's dad

was in a band from that time period that did pretty well, The Go-Betweens. The video for "Make Time 4 Love" is directed by Ryan Daniel Browne and is inspired in part by a 1926

animated German fairytale, _The Adventures of Prince Achmed_, as well as by the 1968 Hungarian animated short, _The Kidnapping of the Sun and the Moon. "_The video takes place in three

worlds," says Louis Forster. "Wicked, regular, and a third - removed fantasy." It also draws some of its dark imagery from album art. "The album covers of _Tilt_ and

_The__Drift_ by Scott Walker were another critical clue for us, and Riley actually bought a copy of _Tilt_ on tour which we listened to and it got us in the right head space." The

second album by The Goon Sax, _We're Not Talking_ is out September 14. Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.