Goat girl follow their amazing eponymous debut album from 2018 with their sophomore, At all hours. The old South London Post-Punk quartet consisting of Lottie, Holly, Naima and LED have delighted critics and fans alike with their first album and are hoping to once again challenge and surprise. with their latest album.
Goat Girl – ‘On All Fours’.
Striving to maintain a sense of humor and political commentary throughout their documentary Goat Girl has produced some of the most creative, original, and alternative music in recent years. However, Goat Girl’s second album “stays away from confrontational lyricism” and uses “music to explore humanitarian, environmental, and mental health”! All the great ideas are succinctly explained through the band’s latest idea of a vision statement, but does that translate to any good music?
Goat Girl premiered three tracks of the album prior to its release along with both Sad cowboy and Crack was released in September and December of last year, respectively, and Badibaba a week before the album’s release. When Sad cowboy more in line with the sound the girls made on their first album, Crack completely different, a little more experimental, and vaguely psychedelic.
The tendency to go the less traveled route or throw in a curved ball now and then should come as no real surprise. Goat Girl’s debut album interpretation of the much-loved Bugsy Malone song, Tomorrow, nothing is lacking in inspiration. Their version, when first heard, is barely discernible from the original, it’s very different but it works like a wonderfully weird cover.
At all hours open with Insect, a song that begins with minimal instrumentals and melancholy vocals, at first as a solo, but then as a layered mix. As the song progresses through a slow, moody bass range, it begins to build up very gradually, eventually presenting as an electrically enhanced Indie floor accompaniment.
Latest single, Badibabawas originally a softer song, driven by a staccato rhythm playing in synth loops where like Jazz (In the supermarket) uses scuzzy usage and various percussions to support it. The track is largely instrumental with a mix of influences, including World and Folk music, all of which somehow sync together to produce the resulting track.
Once again are a small number of Funky with gentle vocal handling and Close the door offers a French twist to add to the revolving steel guitar sound and playful set rhythm. Feelings of anxiety even more relaxed and mellow with a smooth, soulful R&B feel, where They bite you relies more on its harmony and layering to compliment the bass and drum support. The song ends, Bang, Where do we go and A-Men all have similar origins using an innovative layer of harmonies, hooks, and percussion touches.
The thirteen songs of the new album Goat Girl are influenced by a variety of styles and sounds including psychedelia, electronica, R&B and even Bosa Nova. The band stayed true to their word in saying that they had used “music for discovery” and had “moved away from conventional lyricism”. Goat Girl gave us a break from the norm with their latest album, they weren’t content with keeping the track and they dared to be different. At all hours It’s not a Post-Punk album, it’s an exploratory and experimental album from a group that is considered the forever challenge.
