40 minutes, 19 songs, Goat Girl’s debut album manages to
encapsulate so much in such a short space of time. Songs melt into one another,
tied together by drooling guitar sounds and haunting violins. Short
instrumentals only add to the creepy feel and allow Goat Girl to switch up the
sound without losing the flow of the album. Societal comment and political
protest – in the form of a nursey rhyme on track opener ‘Burn The Stake’ – creates
a portal between reality and the world Goat Girl have curated whilst personal
tales of creepy men on trains (Creep) or the rather sassy ‘I Don’t Care’, a two
part track that sees Lottie drawl carefree, shows how fed up they are with
today’s world. It’s not all doom and gloom however. The western twang of
‘Cracker Drool’ and the vintage rush of ‘The Man’ are confident tracks that
in-time, will undoubtedly become classics, whilst album-closer, ‘Tomorrow’, a
cover from Bugsy Malone, gives a small insight into the album’s influences.
