Since quietly releasing their debut Moon Cabin from a barn in rural New Hampshire back in 2016, Goose have spent nearly a decade refining a sound that now fills stadiums, streaming platforms, and hearts in equal measure. With Everything Must Go, the band turn a fresh page, reconnecting with producer D. James Goodwin at The ISOKON in Woodstock, NY, for their most wide-ranging studio album yet, a shapeshifting blend of road-worn favorites and new material that captures Goose in full, unfiltered flight.

Billed by guitarist and vocalist Rick Mitarotonda as a kind of “mix tape” of the group’s recent years, Everything Must Go bottles the band’s evolution with surprising clarity. There’s a looseness to the structure that mirrors the group’s live shows, where no setlist is sacred and the next left turn might just be the highlight of the night. What ties it all together is that singular Goose chemistry: melodic, hypnotic, emotionally direct, and fearlessly jam-happy.

Lead single “Give It Time” opened the door with cascading guitar, five-part harmonies, and a lyrical call to breathe through doubt and lean into change. It’s the sound of a band that’s weathered plenty - a lineup shift here, a pandemic pause there - and emerged stronger, sharper, and more confident in their ability to let the music do the talking.

That music has taken them from sweaty basement gigs in Connecticut to selling out Red Rocks and Madison Square Garden, not to mention earning prime slots at Bonnaroo, ACL Fest, and an on-screen presence that’s included Fallon, Kimmel, and CBS Saturday Morning. And while 2022’s Dripfield gave Goose their first major critical breakthrough which Rolling Stone called “headphone ear candy” and “perfect live peak” material, Everything Must Go feels like the follow-through. It’s the sound of a band that knows exactly who it is, and isn’t afraid to show its full hand.

The tracklist includes beloved live staples, reshaped in the studio, as well as brand-new songs that speak to the growth Goose has embraced in recent years. The lineup - Mitarotonda along with Peter Anspach (vocals, keys, guitar), Trevor Weekz (bass), Jeff Arevalo (vocals, percussion, drums), and Cotter Ellis (vocals, drums) - continues to explore what happens when indie-rock songcraft meets the anything-goes ethos of the jam world.

DIY to the core, Goose has built their following the long way: one show, one video, one shared experience at a time. They’ve turned YouTube, Bandcamp, and nugs.net into extensions of their stage, letting fans relive the highs and dive deeper into their catalog. But if there’s a throughline from Moon Cabin to Everything Must Go, it’s this: the songs are the engine, and the improvisation is the fuel.