London post-punk group Goat Girl will release new album ‘Below The Waste’ on June 7th.
The band’s excellent second album ‘On All Fours’ was released in 2021, winning warm reviews in the process. Hitting the road, Goat Girl balanced live commitments to a desire to seek out new ideas, and build another record.
Pun-tastic ‘Below The Waste’ is the result. Out on June 7th via Rough Trade, the bulk of the instrumentation for the record was tracked over a ten-day stint in Ireland at Hellfire Studios.
Also utilising Damon Albarn’s Studio 13, Goat Girl then added various other parts – additional strings, woodwind instrumentals, and a choir – at a number of locations, including a barn in Essex and their own studio in South London.
New song ‘Ride Around’ leads the way, the first single to be released from the 16 track album. Opening with distorted, drill-like guitars, you can hear everyone from Wire to the Breeders in the sonic attack.
There’s an experimental edge, however, a desire to move between tension and release in its most abstract, that makes ‘Ride Around’ fresh, and rather unexpected.
Singer Lottie Pendlebury comments…
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.
Filmmakers Luke Kulukundis and Mateo Villanueva Brandt from Foreign Body Productions have constructed a video for ‘Ride Around’ – tune in now.
Catch Goat Girl on an underplay tour next month:
March
22 Hebden Bridge Wainsgate Chapel
23 Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach
24 Nottingham Bodega
26 Margate Where Else?
27 Norwich Norwich Arts Centre
28 London ICA
Photo Credit: Holly Whitaker
