Ladies’ Christopher Owens pronounces new solo album ‘I Wanna Run Barefoot By Your Hair’
Ladies’ Christopher Owens has introduced his new solo album ‘I Wanna Run Barefoot By Your Hair’ marking his first LP in 9 years.
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The brand new LP is ready for launch on October 18 through True Panther Information (Ladies, King Krule, Grace Ives) and you’ll pre-order / presave it here. ‘I Wanna Run Barefoot By Your Hair’ was co-produced by Owens and longtime collaborator Doug Boehm (Ladies, French Kicks, Twin Peaks) in varied San Francisco studios.
Together with the announcement of the album, Owens additionally shared his new single ‘No Good’. The monitor includes a Jangly guitar rock sound with lyrics similar to: “No, not one other love tune / Not yet one more tune the place I’m pretending / All the pieces will probably be okay / I died the day you left me,” describing a susceptible and fewer optimistic place.
The tune 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 house.
‘No Good’ follows Owen’s beforehand launched single ‘I Suppose About Heaven’. Each songs will probably be featured on the forthcoming album.
Talking in regards to 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 achieve the entire world and lose his personal soul?’ Recently I’ve discovered it fascinating to ask it differently. ‘What shall it revenue a person, if he lose his complete world, and achieve again his soul?’ And I feel the reply must be one thing like — The Kingdom of Heaven.”
‘I Wanna Run Barefoot By 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 Pal’
Following a latest motorbike accident that left him immobilised, battles with homelessness and the demise of his former Ladies 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 Ladies 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 Ladies. “Once we very first began, we have 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 all the time believed that sooner or later that we might discover the fitting folks and they might keep endlessly however sadly we didn’t.”
Owens’ final solo album ‘Chrissybaby Endlessly‘ was launched in 2015. In a four-star evaluate, NME known as the artist “a naturally intuitive pop songwriter”, and stated that: “‘Chrissybaby Endlessly’ is a recent slice of Californian good vibrations that arrives simply in time for summer time.”