Following the recent anniversary of their third album Below The Waste, Goat Girl have unveiled details of a new orchestrated EP. Cherry-picked from the 16-track Rough Trade-released record, Below The Waste – Orchestrated reimagines four unsung cuts and shines an entirely new light on them.
Recorded and mixed at Total Refreshment Centre by Syd Kemp (caroline, Thurston Moore) and mastered by Harvel Birrell (Lankum, black midi), the pieces were scored and arranged by Goat Girl and played live in the room with a DIY chamber ensemble made up of rising young musicians and artists in their own right Aga Ujma & Slow Cooked.
This new version ‘sleep talk (chamber ensemble)’ sets the tone for the rest of the EP as a widescreen string quartet stand in place of the mellotron parts on the original track. Almost entirely removing Goat Girl’s rhythm section, the band’s signature three-part harmonies are given new framing amongst the rich classical instrumentation, allowing Lottie Pendlebury’s tender words to hit harder than ever.
The EP will arrive ahead of Goat Girl’s long-awaited debut headline tour in North America this September & October, where they’ll be supported by the transcendental Maria BC.
Tracklist:
sleep talk (chamber ensemble)
perhaps (chamber ensemble)
tcnc (chamber ensemble)
wasting (chamber ensemble)
Live:
15.06 – We Are The Many Festival (EartH), London
18.07 – Astroshow Open Air, Bordeaux
20.07 – Midi Festival, Toulin
27.09 – Levitation, Austin
29.09 – Casbah, San Diego
30.09 – Zebulon, LA
01.10 – Constellation Room, Santa Ana
02.19 – Bottom of the Hill, SF
04.10 – Mississippi Studios, Portland
05.10 – Madame Lou’s, Seattle
07.19 – Turf Club, Minneapolis
08.10 – Sleeping Village, Chicago
10.10 – Garrison, Toronto
11.10 – Esco, Montreal
12.10 – Rockwell, Boston
13.10 – Johnny Brenda’s, Philly
15.10 – Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn
17.10 – Pearl St, Washington DC
