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Goat Girl – Goat Girl (Released 6th April)

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£16.99 – Indies Only Violet LP & Limited Fanzine*while stocks last

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.

Salty Sounds
Burn the Stake
Creep
Viper Fish
A Swamp Dog’s Tale
Cracker Drool
Slowly Reclines
The Man with No Heart or Brain
Moonlit Monkey
The Man
Lay Down
I Don’t Care Part 1
Hank’s Theme
I Don’t Care Part 2
Throw Me a Bone
Dance of Dirty Leftovers
Little Liar
Country Sleaze
Tomorrow

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Standard Black LP