{"id":94430,"date":"2015-06-18T20:21:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T19:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=94430"},"modified":"2015-08-01T19:54:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T18:54:33","slug":"skivrecension-christopher-owens-chrissybaby-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=94430","title":{"rendered":"Skivrecension: Christopher Owens &#8211; Chrissybaby Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/owens1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-94432\" src=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/owens1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"owens\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/owens1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/owens1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/owens1.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist: Christopher Owens<br \/>\nTitel: Chrissybaby Forever<br \/>\nBetyg: 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ur saknade San Francisco-bandet Girls aska har frontmannen Christopher Owens hunnit sl\u00e4ppa tv\u00e5 soloalbum; 2013 \u00e5rs nedtonade <em>Lysandre<\/em> som kretsade kring ett \u00e5terkommande meloditema, och f\u00f6rra \u00e5rets country-pr\u00e4glade album <em>A New Testament<\/em>. Tidigare under v\u00e5ren delade han med sig av den medryckande singeln <em>Selfish Feelings<\/em> och l\u00e4t meddela att ett nytt album var p\u00e5 v\u00e4g. Pl\u00f6tsligt fanns ett helt album (p\u00e5 hela sexton l\u00e5tar!) uppladdat p\u00e5 hand Bandcamp-sida.<\/p>\n<p>J\u00e4mf\u00f6rt med de tv\u00e5 tidigare soloalbumen \u00e4r <em>Chrissybaby Forever<\/em> en v\u00e4lkommen \u00e5terg\u00e5ng till Girls sound. Ekot av gitarrerna i deras tvekl\u00f6st k\u00e4ndaste l\u00e5t, <em>Lust for Life<\/em>, \u00e5terkommer p\u00e5 flera av l\u00e5tarna h\u00e4r. I en intervju med <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/1803864\/qa-christopher-owens-on-his-back-to-basics-surprise-album-chrissybaby-forever\/franchises\/interview\/\">Stereogum<\/a> beskriver han det sj\u00e4lv som ett \u201cback-to-basics-album,&#8221; och med tanke p\u00e5 att Owens alltid har varit en r\u00e4tt simpel l\u00e5tskrivare, som \u00e4ven n\u00e4r han tagit upp tyngre och m\u00f6rkare \u00e4mnen (i <em>Inside Out<\/em> sjunger han till exempel &#8221;I&#8217;m not an antichrist, I just can&#8217;t fake belief&#8221;) gjort det med en slags tr\u00f6stande ton som snarare f\u00e5tt dig att se p\u00e5 tillvaron\u00a0fr\u00e5n ett lite positivare perspektiv, s\u00e4ger det p\u00e5st\u00e5endet en hel del.<\/p>\n<p>Det m\u00e4rks ocks\u00e5 att albumet tillkommit extremt snabbt, utan krusiduller. Kreativiteten slog v\u00e4l bara till. Bortsett fr\u00e5n n\u00e5gra bakgrundss\u00e5ngerskor har Owens spelat in det mesta sj\u00e4lv tillsammans med producenten J.J. Wiesler. Antagligen har han inte brytt sig om att censurera sig sj\u00e4lv heller, f\u00f6r samtidigt som <em>Chrissybaby Forever<\/em> inneh\u00e5ller n\u00e5gra av hans hittills starkaste solol\u00e5tar s\u00e5 k\u00e4nns helheten\u00a0som hans oj\u00e4mnaste soloplatta. Fast samtidigt finns det en charm \u00f6ver det, och jag \u00e4r faktiskt mest bara glad \u00f6ver att han\u00a0\u00e5terg\u00e5tt till att b\u00f6rja skriva l\u00e5tar i den h\u00e4r stilen igen. F\u00f6rhoppningsvis sl\u00e4pper\u00a0Christopher Owens\u00a0ett nytt album n\u00e4sta \u00e5r igen.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e4sta sp\u00e5r: Heroine (Hot Nothing on You), Selfish Feelings<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1gfZ8BsUmYM\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Christopher Owens Titel: Chrissybaby Forever Betyg: 3 Ur saknade San Francisco-bandet Girls aska har frontmannen Christopher Owens hunnit sl\u00e4ppa tv\u00e5 soloalbum; 2013 \u00e5rs nedtonade Lysandre som kretsade kring ett \u00e5terkommande meloditema, och f\u00f6rra \u00e5rets country-pr\u00e4glade album A New Testament. Tidigare under v\u00e5ren delade han med sig av den medryckande singeln Selfish Feelings och l\u00e4t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[12095,8864,1998,9292],"class_list":["post-94430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-musik","category-skivor","tag-chrissybaby-forever","tag-christopher-owens","tag-girls","tag-san-francisco","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94434,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94430\/revisions\/94434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}