Album Of The Week: Goat Girl – On All Fours 30 January, 2021
Our pick of the albums reviewed on these pages this week is the second Goat Girl record On All Fours – here’s your chance to revisit the review and check out the album via Spotify.
“Goat Girl’s 2018 self-titled debut album was an intense but brief affair; nineteen tracks forming a whistle-stop tour through the devolution of their home, that bloody London, with only one track clocking in at over three minutes.”
“For the delayed (no prizes for guessing why) second, the quartet have expanded their horizons both sonically and lyrically.”
Goat GirlOn All Fours ★★★★☆Exuding punk attitude and surly reticence, Goat Girl were a cool band when they slouched out of south London four years ago.Now that they have learnt to play their
Goat Girl. CREDIT: Press
With their self-titled debut album, released in 2018, Goat Girl were regarded as an inherently political band. In part, it was down to incendiary songs such as âBurn the Stakeâ, which built a bonfire out of the Tories and their right-wing allies the DUP, and set them alight. You also have to wonder if their roots in the post-punk scene surrounding scrappy Brixton venue The Windmill played a part: in among a crowd led by men in bands â Shame, Black Midi, Squid, HMLTD and Fat White Family â Goat Girl were outliers. But does their existence alone make them political?
On All Fours via Rough Trade on January 29.
One of its tracks is entitled “The Crack” – watch them play a live version below, recorded at The Nunhead Alhambra:
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Ahead of the release of
On All Fours, the band will perform live from Rough Trade East on January 27 – you can buy tickets for the livestream here.
To read a full-page review of
On All Fours, along with a Q&A with singer/guitarist
Lottie Pendlebury, pick up the latest issue of