The Goldberg Sisters is the new musical project from Adam Goldberg, the always entertaining actor/filmmaker whose impressive resume includes the likes of Saving Private Ryan, Dazed And Confused, Friends, Entourage, Zodiac, 2 Days In Paris and the Flaming Lips’ Christmas On Mars. The band’s 10-track, self-titled album (on Apology Music/Play It Again Sam) follows Goldberg’s 2009 musical debut, Eros And Omissions, released under the moniker LANDy. As with that project, The Goldberg Sisters finds Goldberg collaborating with Aaron Espinoza (Earlimart, Admiral Radley), though this time out, the duo was assisted by a handful of other musicians, including Goldberg’s girlfriend Roxanne Daner on violin. The result is a satisfying collection of effects-heavy, urbane psychedelia held together by Goldberg’s high-pitched, Lennon-esque croon. Goldberg will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new Q&A with him.
Goldberg: Before I realized that an actual relationship with a French woman is emotional and psychic suicide, I was in love with Anna Karina. (I can say that about the suicide because the Frenchie I “knew” blamed her clinical psychosis on being French, so I didn’t say it, she did.) One of the very early songs I wrote in my forlorn, besotted 20s, when being miserable was fun, went something like, “Will you be my Gena Rowlands/Will you be my Anna Karina?” Good thing I didn’t record that; I already came/come off as a pretentious douchebag. But she was why if you didn’t get or really dig French New Wave as much as you were “supposed” to, you would be hard pressed to not get … avoiding sophomoric pun here … When I met my lady, I thought she looked like Karina. And she’s not French. Or an actress. Some sort of hole was torn in the space-time continuum, and she snuck through.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08VCTCwrnRI
