Interview with Good Terms

Pop punk Band Good Terms are back with a new album “Burnout”. The Band is currently ontour in the US and hope to make it to other countries in the future. The band has that classicpop punk sound and put on a hell of a show. Good Terms bring in sounds from many differentpunk staples to create their own blend of pop punk. I had a short conversation with singer andguitar player Brian McShea. Check them out as the crisscross the states this summer.

SUNRAY: Brian, you guys just dropped a new rack record, can you tell me a little bit more about that?

Good Terms: Absolutely, yeah, we just dropped our record burnout back in December, which was a lot ofwork. I mean, the part of the title is that we did really almost burn ourselves out making it. It’s allself produced. It’s allself-recorded. It’s all these songs about things that took us kind of to theedge in our lives. So it’s but I’m very proud of it.

SUNRAY: Brian, you’re just kicking off this tour or have you guys been on the road a couple weeks?

Good Terms: We This is day five of 20 total dates. Nice. And it is the fifth day in a row, and then we have an off day, and then there’s no more five in a rows after that. So we’re just starting off real strong. Okay. And then from here on out, I think is going to be a smooth sailing. So this leads into agood question.

SUNRAY: What do you guys do on an off day?

Good Terms: We drive.. For a tour, our size, it is actually what a big tour we call a travel day. Okay. So we got10, 11 hours in the van tomorrow. Our guitarist, Ivan, is in charge of all the logistics. So he’s got all mapp out. He’s got the hotel books. But yeah, we’re going somewhere in Texas.

SUNRAY: So on this new record, do you guys feel like you hit a new level? Was there anyexperimentation that came along?

Good Terms: Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, I’d say that experimentation was like the name of the game. You know, we had made our first record by ourselves. We had released it by ourselves called Turning Point back in 2021. And that was just learning how to be a band. For this record, Secret Friends, we really pushed ourselves to try new things. We tried to incorporate more of the genres that we enjoy. Like, it’s all pop punk emo at the core of it, but we incorporated the indie pop, we incorporated the metal core. There’s tinges of it and flavors of it everywhere. and then, even with the recording himself, which I’m not really the recording guy, but I know they went extremely hard with how to record things, how to produce things, how to get things to sound better. So the production was turned up a notch would be a fair thing to say. A thousand percent.

SUNRAY: What got you into the pop punk sound?

Good Terms: For me, it was my elementary school best friend. We just did everything together, and one dayhe was into Green Day. I never stopped being into Green Day, you know, and I just kind of kept going on music from then on out. I did have a cool family friend, he had the room in the basement with the drum set and the fender amps and I could play an electric guitar when I went to his house and he gave me my first electric guitar. Yeah, without him, I might not be in a band at all.

Photos and Interview by Mike Bengoechea