If the new album from Michael Cantor’s The Goodbye Party project sounds like fellow Philly rockers like Radiator Hospital and Swearin’ it’s no coincidence. The city’s got an extremely tightly knit scene of particularly lo-fi bedroom pop of which Cantor’s a part—in fact, he tapped Radiator Hospital’s Sam Cook-Parrott for backing vocals on Beautiful Motors, while Swearin’s Kyle Gilbride oversaw its recording.
The second single from the project arrives today along with a video that sets the sunny, reflective “December Boys” to some equally sunny and reflective footage revisiting pleasant memories from the early days of Cantor’s relationship with his partner.
“When my partner and I started dating, she was writing a graphic novel that documented her first year in Philly,” he explains. “Naturally, she captured the beginning of our relationship in the book. The lyrics are a short collection of some of those pages. The song itself came together in about twenty minutes, but took another seven years to make it onto an album.”
Watch the clip below. Beautiful Motors drops October 9—pre-order it from DDW’s site here.
