Good Luck Return After A Decade With New Album “Big Dreams, Mister” Out October 17

After more than a decade away, beloved punk trio Good Luck returns with “Into the Void,” the first single from their forthcoming album Big Dreams, Mister, out October 17 via Lauren Records and Specialist Subject in the UK.

“Into the Void” is about showing up for a friend in need, even when you’re not sure how. “It’s a song about not knowing how to comfort someone who’s going through it, other than to say, let’s keep doing things and being here,” explains vocalist/guitarist Ginger Alford. “But also it’s about driving across the country and drinking coffee, and is full of lots of silly puns. I had played this song solo and with other folks before, but it didn’t really click until we got back together and everybody added their magic.”

Big Dreams, Mister is the sound of a band rediscovering its joy. Made purely for the love of playing together again, the album is equal parts highly-concentrated effort, pressure-free creativity and the thirst to settle unfinished business after the band stopped making music together in 2012.

In 2023, low-key texts started popping up in the band’s group chat, and plans were made to hang out at a borrowed practice space in Cleveland just to see if making music together still felt good. The secret reunion was surprisingly comfortable and everything clicked back into place. After two weekends of jamming, a few loose ideas evolved into songs and were recorded with fellow noodlepunk Joe Reinhart (Hop Along, Joyce Manor, Modern Baseball), as the garden continued to grow around them. Half a year passed, and after a few more weekend-long bursts of songwriting, the band returned to Reinhart to finish what will become their (classic) third record – Big Dreams, Mister. Good Luck is back, just like that.

“We always felt like we might write music together again,” the band shares. “And once we did, these songs felt exactly like what we would write.”

Good Luck plays joyful, intricate, unique punk-ish music with a DIY spirit.

Formed in Bloomington, IN, the trio – Ginger Alford, Matt Tobey, and Mike Harpring – crafted a sound that resonated deeply within the punk and indie communities before stepping away for over a decade. Now they’re back, not as a reunion act, but as a revitalized band playing and writing anew. They’ve got big dreams, mister.