They say it's hard to keep a creative partnership going after a while. Not so in the case of Good Morning – the Melbourne duo made up of Stefan Blair and Liam Parsons – who join the Polyvinyl family in their seventh year of making music together! 

Returning today with their first new tunes in two years – we are so excited to share the double release of Mollyduker / Keep It. Rich and warmly-hued, these songs reflect the Good Morning of 2021: a little more thoughtful, a little more virtuosic, and in no way any less anxious. Written collaboratively during the two-week quarantine period after the band came home from their COVID-cancelled American tour, the tracks speak to the conditions under which they were made.  

The pastoral, rangy "Mollyduker," sung by Stefan, is a quintessential driving song, its steady, wiry groove hardly letting up over the course of its runtime. The song's ease belies its tense imagery: drunken spews, held tongues, and anxiety tokens abound. Stefan shares: "‘Mollyduker’ was something my Pa called me whenever we’d be hanging out and working on his farm. It’s a reference to me being left-handed, however, I used to take it as somewhat of a dig. The lyrics are a reflection on my relationship with him, as well as the farm itself, which has served as a home to a lot of my family over the years.”

"Keep It", sung by Liam, is no less inviting and no less heavy with psychic weight. A meditation on failure, drinking, and aging, “Keep It” is laden with piano and warm, warping guitar — soft-edged counterweights to the severed heads and flooding waters of the song's lyrics. “An ode to stasis,” Liam says – “Repressed feelings, substance misadventure and arrested development in your late 20s.”

Read more at Billboard and stay tuned for more Good Morning news in the coming months.