Goat Girl - Goat Girl

Across 19 tracks in just 40 minutes, Goat Girl’s self-titled debut creates a half-fantasy world out of a very dirty, ugly city reality.  Goat Girl belong to a burgeoning, close-knit south London scene, born in venues like The Windmill in Brixton and including bands like Shame, Bat-Bike, Madonnatron, Horsey, Sorry, and many more.

“We help each other - I put you on, you put me on - because we genuinely like each other’s music. We’d played gigs all over before but never really settled in a comfortable environment, which is what The Windmill is. It’s an important place for us, it was the first space that our music made sense to exist within. It’s a safe space where music is genuinely listened to and appreciated, and where laws and licensing haven't reached over to ruin the venue.”

 This live freedom enabled the band to think without constraints when it came to recording. Goat Girl enlisted producer Dan Carey (The Kills, Bat For Lashes, Franz Ferdinand) to help them capture their vision, set a goal to write and record a piece of music in a day in effort to capture that raw first-creation moment, and chose to record to tape.

 It’s a very English album. Sharp-eyed observations like The Kinks, louche rage like The Slits. but it’s also full of swampy, swaggering guitars and singer Lottie’s filthy drawl. Each member brings a diverse range of influences and contributions, ranging from Krautrock to Bossa Nova, Jazz to Blues. They resist being boxed in to an indie, guitar-based genre, and focused intensely on the layers and textures of each song as well as the different contexts they could sit within.

 The result, Goat Girl, succeeds in conjuring a complete world all unto itself, and is arranged in segments, divided by improvised interludes, that offer glimpses of an even stranger parallel universe. With each song acting as its own story of sorts that features different settings and characters, listeners are transported therewithin. It’s dark yet cheeky, varied yet cohesive, and striking in its vision; this world is populated by creeps and liars, lovers, dreamers, and wonderful lunatics.

TRACK LISTING

1. Salty Sounds
2. Burn The Stake
3. Creep
4. Viper Fish
5. A Swamp Dog's Tale
6. Cracker Drool
7. Slowly Reclines
8. The Man With No Heart Or Brain
9. Moonlit Monkey
10. The Man
11. Lay Down
12. I Don't Care Part 1
13. Hank's Theme
14. I Don't Care Part 2
15. Throw Me A Bone
16. Dance Of Dirty Leftovers
17. Little Liar
18. Country Sleaze
19. Tomorrow

PRODUCT DETAILS

Artist:  Goat Girl
Label:  Rough Trade
Condition:  New 
Genre:  Indie & Alternative
Format:  LP vinyl
Cat Number:  RTRADLPX884                                                                     
Released:  6 April 2018