Listen: Goose Release Surprise Album ‘Chain Yer Dragon’ Following Return to ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’

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The blaze ceases to extinguish… 

Goose have surprised fans by delivering its fifth studio album, and second full-length release of 2025, Chain Yer Dragon, via No Coincidence Records. The Northeastern-bred four-piece initiated the move last night during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, debuting a new track and LP feature, “Madalena,” before turning over the complete collection to streaming sites this morning. 

Chain Yer Dragon presents the band, Rick Mitarotonda (vocals, guitar), Peter Anspach (vocals, keys, guitar), Trevor Weekz (bass), and Cotter Ellis (drums), resuming their studio lineage with producer D. James Goodwin, who worked on the group’s 2022 effort, Dripfield. The new set arrives four months after the April release of Everything Must Go. 

The latest assembly of songs provides a roadmap of concert-tested material. It runs the gamut from early features of their live show, “Echo of A Rose,” “Empress of Organos,” “Rockdale,” and brand new tracks, like the Fallon-tested “Madalena” and “Royal,” while subsequently tracing bandleader Mitaronda’s songwriting history back to his 2011 creative partnership with Matt Campbell and provide a near 15 year glance at the guitarist’s ambitions for the band. 

“There’s a world-building component that feels like the driving force of this record,” Mitarotonda reflects. “Many of these character-driven songs come from a time and place where we were finding our voice musically, and it’s been so gratifying to not only revisit it through the lens of who and where we are now, but to expand on it. These songs have been on a journey, and it feels right for them to finally have a home now.” 

“Chain Yer Dragon is certainly its own world,” adds Anspach. “One that has existed for a while, but has grown along the way. I think Everything Must Go was in many ways a broader statement album for the band after three wild years. It kind of symbolized that roller coaster, with many different themes and moments that were born in that pressure cooker.

“Chain Yer Dragon is a special album in that, from front to back, it really showcases the songwriting duo of Rick and Matt. They have such a strong, open relationship when it comes to writing, and it seems to grow with each composition. ‘Madalena’ was notably the most recent song to be written for this record. I’m in awe of what they are able to create, and I’m stoked to share in the world of Chain Yer Dragon.”

The group’s latest set represents a vital combination of songs that celebrate the foundations of the band’s history by revisiting aged compositions while also invigorating them with a sense of newness illustrated by each member’s personal flourishes, respect for the past, and perseverance for the future. 

“I’m proud of the journey these songs have been on, and that they’re finally being realized on a record that feels in line with the spirit of what they always wanted to be,” says Mitarotonda. “It also gave us an opportunity to work on some new ideas that felt like they belonged to the world these songs inhabit, while also adding some new language. I like to think of these things as a landscape, and that together we can move in any direction at any time — embracing and exploring our past and pushing forward to somewhere new.”

Stream/purchase Chain Yer Dragon. Watch the band’s live performance of the new song “Madalena” below.

GOOSE – CHAIN YER DRAGON

Tracklist:

Hot Love & The Lazy Poet

Madalena

Royal

Turbulence & The Night Rays

Echoes Of A Rose

Mr. Action

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Dr. Darkness

Empress Of Organos

Jed Stone

Rockdale

Factory Fiction