Goat Girl - Below The Waste
A brilliantly bold, experimental, original third LP by the now south London indie-post-punk trio of Clottie Cream (Lottie Pendlebury), Rosy Bones and Holly Mullineaux, one that bubbles with unusual musical dynamics and lyrics. Co-produced by the band and John Spud Murphy (Lankum/ Black Midi), there’s all sorts of wonderful oddness in store, from expansive noise-rock to delicate, offbeat folk and synth-driven alternative indie-pop. Following the gentle opener, Reprise, comes the thunderous, foreboding undercurrent of the extraordinary Ride Around, the gentle, delicate melody and walking pace of Words Fell Out, or Motorway’s textured, soft, soporific synths alongside a video featuring a sudden flash of impressive buttocks. But there’s much else more to enjoy on this 16-track release – from the punkish yet drunken, dirty wooziness of tcnc, or the languorously croaky intimacy of Tonight, another track on which Lottie’s vocal style range really extends on this album, and weaves eccentrically over guitar and woodwind. Then there’s beautiful pitter-patter rhythms and violins of Pretty Faces, the downbeat wriggly shoegaze of Perhaps that suddenly breaks into shards of disturbing high strings; the thrumming bass and syncopation of the oddball Jump Sludge with added banjo ripples, the murky squeezebox depths of Sleep Talk, or the avant-garde percussion and synth sounds of closer Wasting, a sort of crashing, chaotic nihilistic musical wasteland which finds its way to a lovely and strange trumpety conclusion. In all, this is a breakthrough work of fabulously different, confident, mature experimental music, morphing distinctively away from conventionally catchy indie pop tunes into a fascinating new otherworldly landscape. Out on Rough Trade.
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