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Introducing new London-based act Goat Girl

Posted 10/05/2016

It’s with pleasure that we welcome UK four-piece and recent Rough Trade signing, Goat Girl.

From the very beginning Goat Girl were always threatening to turn into a special band, with songs that use subtlety as their main ingredient and lyrics that mean everything despite being written down in the most simplistic and non-aggressive way possible.

The best music always comes out of nowhere, and Ellie, Lottie, Naima and Rosie seem as surprised as anybody to find themselves in their current position. “A year ago me and Ellie were playing this cult open mic night in south London run by someone who used to be in Hawkwind,” says Naima. “Then we met Lottie in the street outside a house party, then we met Rosie in the audience at The Windmill in Brixton, and then we became Goat Girl.”

Goat Girl currently have upwards of 20 completed songs, each one a caustic commentary on the England they’ve grown up in. Their track ‘Scum’, released on Rough Trade, is as full-on and dead-eyed as British rock music gets, while ‘Country Sleaze’ is a brooding two-chord time capsule that sounds like it’s been beamed over from a Seattle divebar in 1989. Both tracks were recorded purposefully quickly in a north London studio just recently with fast-rising producer Margo Broom.

“There’s teenage angst in them,” says Ellie. “But I think that was inevitable, growing up in London over the last ten years.” As rare as they are refreshing, the band’s plan from here is simple: get ‘Country Sleaze’ and ‘Scum’ out into the world ASAP, hit the road, and record a debut album that has, as Naima puts it, “spirit, strength and simplicity” at its heart.

The band will be supporting Parquet Courts at The Forum in London, their biggest headlining show yet. We look forward to seeing Goat Girl tour the U.S. soon. For news and forthcoming tour dates, keep an eye on the band’s artist page.