Brixton’s finest post-punk ungulata Goat Girl just announced third album Below The Waste, slated for 7 June on Rough Trade Records. Lead track ‘ride around’ is out now and it’s an accomplished reminder of this band’s outstanding skill.
Woven together like a sonic tapestry, the track was recorded mostly over a ten-day stint in Ireland at Hellfire Studios, and they also used Damon Alban’s Studio 13. Additional strings (Reuben Kyriakides and Nic Pendlebury), woodwind instruments (Alex McKenzie) and vocals (including a choir made up of family and friends) were recorded at a number of locations, from a barn in Essex to Goat Girl’s own studio in South London.
“I was listening to lots of music at the time by Phillip Glass and Deerhoof that plays with the relationship between tension and resolution which definitely influenced this song. I was yearning for honesty and authenticity in relationships I held with people, probably partly because at the time, like everyone, we were so isolated from one another. But it also felt deeper than that, like the conversations I dreamt of stripped away all of the etiquettes we desperately clung onto and went below the surface to where the most interesting parts of ourselves tend to be suppressed.”
Singer Lottie on ‘ride around’
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Catch Goal Girl live:
Fri 22nd March – Hebden Bridge, Wainsgate Chapel
Sat 23rd March – Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach
Sun 24th March – Nottingham, Bodega
Tue 26th March – Margate, Where Else?
Wed 27th March – Norwich, Norwich Arts Centre
Thu 28th March – London, ICA