The Goods, the Oakland power pop band, share new single "Minor Key"

Oakland power pop band The Goods have shared "Minor Key," the second single from their upcoming album Goodbye Summertime, due out September 16 via Dandy Boy Records, Under the Radar reported. The album follows the band's 2023 self-titled EP and last year's full-length debut, Don't Spoil The Fun, and continues in the bright, melodic vein of power pop and 1960s-tinged psych and jangle pop.

According to frontman Good, the new album came together quickly in the aftermath of a difficult breakup and a new relationship that followed soon after. "The long-term relationship I was in collapsed, and in the wake of that, I found new love," he said, describing writing and recording songs in real time while living at his own studio.

"I'd be experiencing some crazy high or crushing low, and I'd write a song about it and immediately record it," Good said. "Many of these songs are real-time accounts of what I was going through in those moments."

Where lead single "Summer's Almost Gone" was bright and beach-ready, "Minor Key" is softer and more reflective, which Good describes as "a bittersweet goodbye to someone left behind." The song leans into the wistful side of the band's influences, built around open guitar chords, double-tracked harmonies and a guitar solo with a hint of distortion, with lyrics that linger on a fading summer romance and what he could have done differently.

Goodbye Summertime is The Goods' second full-length release and continues the band's run of indie albums built around real, specific emotional turning points rather than broader themes.