As young musicians based in Brisbane, it’s perhaps inevitable that summer conjures images of daylong hangovers in the intense heat for The Goon Sax. But instead of being a recipe for misery, it's often a time for personal reflection and—with the right soundtrack—emotional epiphanies. The indie-pop trio’s deeply evocative playlist showcases “songs for hot, potentially hungover summer days in bed,” Louis Forster tells Apple Music. “To be rolled about sleepily to, chasing the rotating tunnel of cool air from a pedestal fan. A sweaty room, sticky and luxurious. The final drops of water from your bedside cup tease your lips and can’t last long enough. A very earthly kind of heavenly.” Replicate that dedicated quest for relief with these widely varied songs, and read on for some articulate commentary from Forster and bandmates Riley Jones and James Harrison. Lost Animal, “Say No to Thugs” “This one’s for a night walk after a particularly sticky bed-based day. Air cooling a little but still muggy, a nice bit of breeze, etc. It feels good to feel a little wretched, discovering you haven’t forgotten how to walk and daring your legs to a couple of laps round the park. Those possums screaming and carrying on in the trees around you have got you feeling pretty cheeky yourself.”—Louis Kedr Livanskiy, “Ariadna” “Kedr Livanskiy is my favourite pop star/producer at the moment. Her song ‘Ariadna’ is hauntingly beautiful. When I listen to it, I become hypnotised so easily. I surrender to its sweet dreaminess just like hazy delirium on a hot summer day. A day when I feel like my mind is melting and days are blurring into one and all I hear are cicadas droning everywhere. I chose this song to add some romance to the Aussie heat. I hope it sounds like the sonic equivalent of a large body of cool water, or at least a reminder of the snowy terrain in which it was written.”—Riley Madonna, “What It Feels Like for a Girl” “I was happy to hear this song for the first time in about two decades coming out of the stereo of a parked SUV, heating up fast as the still-vicious mid-afternoon sun beat on the roof and spilled through the back windows and onto my neck. Since then I’ve happily luxuriated in it on quite a few sweaty and slow bed days. It feels soothing and engages a restless part of the brain while granting the body its wishes to lay still, moving only to flip the pillow to the cool side.”—Louis Sibylle Baier, “Tonight” “One can require a lot of stimulus to make it through a sticky Sunday. Although I can be inclined to try to force happy feelings through some neat upbeat tunes if I’m by myself, sometimes I think you shouldn’t have to ignore that part of yourself that’s unhappy and screaming, but instead sit with it. I’ve wept to this a few times before, but am still unsure which one of those times was my personal ‘tonight’. It’s not all mopey though: the song is pretty and honest enough to make me feel reflective instead of sad.”—James Coil, “Exploding Frogs” “‘Exploding Frogs’ gives me just enough energy to get myself out of bed after waking up to the midday summer heat on a Sunday morning. The perfect length to drink a litre of water, make a bite and roll back into sweaty bedsheets to enjoy the last minute. One for feeling refreshed while still weary! Grunting as you stretch like a happy pig in its steamy summer sty.”—Louis