Just in! Rough Trade Records has welcomed teenage South London quartet, Goat Girl, into the Beggars Group family this week, and will be releasing their debut single “Country Sleaze” on 7th October as a double a-side single with “Scum”. The band are one of an exciting, emerging set of groups from South London.
Listen to “Country Sleaze” here:
Goat Girl are a special band. Songs that use subtlety as their main ingredient while remaining disarmingly fierce at every turn. Lyrics that mean everything despite being written down in the most simplistic and non-aggressive way possible… they are an anomaly in the UK music scene as 2016 draws to a draggy close: four people playing guitars, bass and drums who have the ability to make you feel //alive// again.
Next month, Goat Girl release two songs on Rough Trade, each one a caustic commentary on the England they’ve grown up in: ‘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 no-nonsense north London studio a few weeks ago with fast-rising producer Margo Broom.
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. Savvy and effortlessly inventive, Goat Girl are London in 2016 – and suddenly London feels real again.
Goat Girl are: Clottie Cream, Rosy Bones, Naima Jelly and L.E.D.
