Bandcamp / Buy The horrors of life as a twenty-something: Youâre having less sex, working constant overtime, and handing over most of your paycheck to a landlord who wonât bat an eyelid if the black mold in the ceiling gives you lung disease. Self-worth is a fleeting commodity, sanity even more so. The Goon Sax have always had the market cornered on tales of young-adult embarrassmentâtheir songs cover scenarios like cutting your own hair and being left on read in the group chat. On Mirror II, the Brisbane trioâs third album and first for Matador, they dig deeper, cataloging embarrassment and every emotion in spitting distance: shame, disgust, malaise, anxiety, discomfort, disconnection, fear, and, above all, cringe. Far from a downer, the album is breathlessly chic, less chaos-for-chaosâ-sake than their previous work but kookier where it counts. Itâs shittier than ever to be young;