Goose's Chain Yer Dragon album is the band's fifth overall and second full-length of 2025, but singer/guitarist Rick Mitarotonda says the album's music and conceptual elements have been in the works for years.
Speaking to Q104.3 New York's Out of the Box with Jonathan Clarke, Mitarotonda explained the significance of the piano-driven "Madalena" in the larger context of the album and the band's ideology.
"It was, I think, the most recent addition to this record. A lot of these songs have been around for a long time and have inhabited a very significant space in our world and our journey, with our group of friends and everything. They mean a lot to us."
Chain Yer Dragon is closely connected to the band's early days. Even the title phrase is a reference to an incident early in Goose's career. Mitarotonda says "Madalena" and "Royal," in particular, expand on ideas conceived as long ago as 2011.
"We've been trying to make this record for a long time. ...It makes sense now. It feels deeply right that it's happening now ... where the band is now, the way we're communicating, the way we're interacting with each other. It's right. It feels really, really good for this material to have been realized this way.
"The impetus was to write a couple more characters into the fold. 'Madalena,' 'Royal,' they're kind of building off a much older song, 'Turbulence & the Night Rays.' ...The world-building thing is really fun for us. We love that."
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