A Colourful Chaos: Clash Meets Goat Girl It s cathartic to write it down, and to talk about, and to engage in conversation about it.
âI guess itâs the four of us coming together as the legs of the goat?â says Rosy Jones of
Goat Girlâs latest album with a laugh. âA journey through light and dark. Good and bad. A colourful chaos,â follows up Holly Mullineaux.
From across London via Zoom, three-quarters of the South London post-punk band - Clottie Cream, Rosy Bones and Holy Hole, aka Lottie Pendlebury, Rosy Jones and Holly Mullineaux - are telling me what the seemingly euphemistically-titled On All Fours is all about.
Goat Girl. CREDIT: Press
With their self-titled debut album, released in 2018, Goat Girl were regarded as an inherently political band. In part, it was down to incendiary songs such as âBurn the Stakeâ, which built a bonfire out of the Tories and their right-wing allies the DUP, and set them alight. You also have to wonder if their roots in the post-punk scene surrounding scrappy Brixton venue The Windmill played a part: in among a crowd led by men in bands â Shame, Black Midi, Squid, HMLTD and Fat White Family â Goat Girl were outliers. But does their existence alone make them political?