Women’ Christopher Owens has introduced his new solo album ‘I Wanna Run Barefoot By way of Your Hair’ marking his first LP in 9 years.
The brand new LP is about for launch on October 18 through True Panther Information (Women, King Krule, Grace Ives) and you may pre-order / presave it right here. ‘I Wanna Run Barefoot By way of Your Hair’ was co-produced by Owens and longtime collaborator Doug Boehm (Women, French Kicks, Twin Peaks) in numerous San Francisco studios.
Together with the announcement of the album, Owens additionally shared his new single ‘No Good’. The monitor incorporates a Jangly guitar rock sound with lyrics resembling: “No, not one other love music / Not yet one more music the place I’m pretending / All the pieces will likely be okay / I died the day you left me,” describing a weak and fewer optimistic place.
The music additionally got here with a video directed by filmmaker Rebekah Sherman-Myntti which sees the singer performing the monitor acoustically with a 12-string guitar in an empty workplace area.
‘No Good’ follows Owen’s beforehand launched single ‘I Suppose About Heaven’. Each songs will likely be featured on the forthcoming album.
Talking concerning the themes and experiences that helped create the LP in a press launch, the singer shared:” Within the second half of the Bible, Jesus asks ‘What shall it revenue a person if he acquire the entire world and lose his personal soul?’ Currently I’ve discovered it attention-grabbing to ask it another way. ‘What shall it revenue a person, if he lose his complete world, and acquire again his soul?’ And I believe the reply must be one thing like — The Kingdom of Heaven.”
‘I Wanna Run Barefoot By way of Your Hair’ tracklist is
1.’No Good’
2. ‘Stunning Horses’
3. ‘I Suppose About Heaven’
4. ‘White Flag’
5. ‘I Know’
6. ‘So’
7. ‘This Is My Guitar’ (prod. Ariel Rechtshaid & Jacob Portrait)
8. ‘Distant Drummer’
9. ‘Two Phrases’
10. ‘Do You Want A Good friend’
Following a latest bike accident that left him immobilised, battles with homelessness and the demise of his former Women bandmate Chet “JR” White in 2020, Owens turned to music for respite, referring to songwriting in a press launch as his “fixed companion”.
Owens introduced he was leaving Women in 2012, and has since launched two solo albums — the primary being 2013’s ‘Lysandre’, which he shortly adopted with a free acoustic model. ‘A New Testomony‘, his second solo album, was launched in 2014.
In a 2012 interview with NME, he defined his causes for departing Women. “Once we very first began, we had been each very clear that we had a really particular objective for the band and that if it didn’t work out we might finish it,” Owens stated.
“We jumped in in a short time at first as a result of folks appreciated what we recorded collectively and put on the web, so we simply put collectively a dwell band. We at all times believed that sooner or later that we might discover the precise folks and they might keep ceaselessly however sadly we didn’t.”
Owens’ final solo album ‘Chrissybaby Ceaselessly‘ was launched in 2015. In a four-star overview, NME referred to as the artist “a naturally intuitive pop songwriter”, and stated that: “‘Chrissybaby Ceaselessly’ is a contemporary slice of Californian good vibrations that arrives simply in time for summer season.”
