Live4ever is currently shining the spotlight on some of our favourite albums and tracks of 2021 so far – today’s highlight comes from Goat Girl.
World events since the hellish early spring of 2020 have not unsurprisingly been a constant theme of the music released into it from then to now. And for Goat Girl, the pandemic can be cited as the main reason why their second album is troubling these kinds of lists this year rather than last.
Long before On All Fours finally got its official release in January, change had been the order of the day for the band; gone was the insular commentary of the London they observed around them on a day-to-day basis of 2018’s Rough Trade self-titled debut.
In were broader themes and concepts, running along side a much broader approach to the songwriting itself, the quartet easing that particular load from the shoulders of Lottie Pendlebury, whilst the wizardry of Dan Carey brought the almost omnipresent Speedy Wunderground into their realm for added measure.
“Sadly, and despite being a year old, the subject matters taken to task (mental health, anxiety, misogyny, all still served with a dose of political outrage) are just as pertinent, arguably more so, as we live through what are hopefully the bleakest of modern times,” our review reads.
“The atmospheric, ethereal opening Pest (trimmed from its original title Pest From The West) is a thoughtful riposte to the now-regular Beast From The East snow warnings, following through on the idea that western culture views anything else as problematic whilst doing little to help global matters via the metaphor of physical disruption.”
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