För inte så länge sedan brukade Christopher Owens blotta sitt brustna hjärta med San Francisco-bandet Girls. Men i somras bestämde han sig för att gå sin egen väg. Nu händer det. Den 14:e januari ger han ut sitt första soloalbum Lysandre. Du kan lyssna på titelspåret här.
Så här står det på hans hemsida:
Named for a girl he met whilst in France for a festival performance, Lysandre – written, recorded and sequenced as a complete narrative – was inspired by the events of Girls’ first ever tour in the summer of 2008. Owens describes the record as: “A coming of age story, a road trip story, a love story.”
The San Francisco-based musician goes on to explain, “Lysandre could easily be mistaken as an album about a love affair. But it’s much more than that.” Written almost entirely in one creative outpouring and recorded with former Girls producer Doug Boehm, Lysandre follows Owens from San Francisco – where he’s filled with excitement after writing his band’s Album – to New York City and on to the French Riviera – where he falls in love with the record’s namesake – before a melancholy return home and a beautifully articulated epilogue.
Låtlista:
1. Lysandre’s Theme
2. Here We Go
3. New York City
4. A Broken Heart
5. Here We Go Again
6. Riviera Rock
7. Love Is In The Ear Of The Listener
8. Lysandre
9. Everywhere You Knew
10. Closing Theme
11. Part Of Me (Lysandre’s Epilogue)
Skivans omslag är för övrigt taget av Ryan McGinley som tidigare fotat omslaget till Bat for Lashes The Haunted Man:
