LABEL: Rough Trade
CAT NO: RTRADLP884
BARCODE: 883870088411
Tracklisting:
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
GOAT GIRL – Goat Girl
LP – Vinyl
Goat Girl’s triumphant self-titled debut album…
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. 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.