Good Good Blood – ‘Johnny Was an Ocean Child’

We’re kicking off 2023 with the latest offering from our friends Good Good Blood. A cryptic piece about Johnny – a boy who was ‘as cute as cute can get‘ – with a dark edge (‘All the disease, all of the blight, cancels out, cancels the light’; ‘he’s as dead as dead can get’) and musings on the mortality of us all, there’s a primal urgency in James Smith’s vocal delivery while the music mixes lo-fi folk stylings with a touch of the Bad Seeds and elements of Grandaddy’s lighter, glitchy touch…

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