Thursday, March 4, 2021

Album Review: Goat Girl - On All Four


"Around the time that South London’s Goat Girl began work on their sophomore record, their guitarist and vocalist, Ellie Rose Davies was diagnosed with hodgkin lymphoma. While the disease is currently in remission, fighting this malady in her own body while the world struggled to contain the spread of COVID-19, must have felt like an implosion of barriers between the self and the world, where the macro became micro, and the internal erupted into the external. These circumstances did not produce in Goat Girl’s latest album, On All Fours, any greater sense of dread or morbid angst, but rather a bemused frustration. A sentiment that can be boiled down to, 'Oh, more of this shit?'" - Read my full review over on New Noise. Links below: