View basket “Stranger Today / Bedroom Record” has been added to your basket. Stranger Today Our Girl SKU: HYMNS16LP Barcode: 5053760040521 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Cannibal Hymns Released Date: 17th August 2018 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info At first, it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what makes Our Girl so special, or why the Brighton-formed, London-based trio’s music stands out within a busy crowd of fellow guitar-wielding-types. But if an explanation didn’t jump out when they first emerged with a debut EP of mighty fuzz-soaked songs in November 2016, it surfaces with ‘Stranger Today’, a debut album of personal, emotional juggernauts that could have only been made by these three people: Guitarist / vocalist Soph Nathan, bassist Josh Tyler and drummer Lauren Wilson. Since forming in Nathan and Tyler’s Brighton home four years ago – Wilson joining as a late recruit when she was wowed by a demo of their self-titled debut track, and ‘Stranger Today’’s opener – Our Girl’s members have only had pockets of time to work together. A day booked in a local studio here, a soundcheck there, full-time jobs and other projects meant the three rarely had a concentrated, collective patch. This changed in September 2017, when they stayed in Eve Studios in Stockport for a week, recording with Bill Ryder-Jones. Their week in Stockport became a crucial catalyst for what would follow. Ryder-Jones is a guitar virtuoso himself (“He did stuff neither me or Soph had ever seen anyone do before,” Tyler remarks), and he became an unofficial fourth member of the group. ‘Stranger Today’ is a special debut for several reasons: First, because it’s the sound of a band beginning to grasp their own value and place in the world. Secondly, because you can hear the trio’s hunger to finally get in the same room and put to tape years’ worth of scrapbooks, half-finished ideas, and a slowly-forming feel for how their first album would actually sound. “What band isn’t itching to make their debut? But it’s quite frightening, knowing you’re about to do it,” Wilson remembers. The real clincher, however, is Our Girl’s dynamic, and how it plays out across ‘Stranger Today’. Best friends in person, the trio share the same close kinship and chemistry on record. On one side is Nathan’s visceral lyricism, which has a habit of detailing and chipping away at precise moments; the first heart-flutter of a new crush; the moment a long-term friendship begins to ebb away. Around her, Tyler and Wilson’s rhythm section carefully mirrors each feeling Nathan conveys. When she sings pointedly about love (‘I Really Like It’), she’s backed by a major-key afterglow. When the subject turns on its head (‘Josephine’), out steps a wall of taut, earth-shaking noise. They each “serve the song,” in Wilson’s words, moving in sync but with their own personal slant. Not least on the closer ‘Boring’, where all restraint is thrown aside and the trio let out one final, violent thrash. They inhabit a space bigger than the first loves, sleepless nights and growing pains that define this record. Nathan remembers being in Brighton four years ago, shortly after Our Girl formed, and realising, “I was finally in the band I wanted to be in.” Almost half a decade later, and this eureka moment is sewn up on ‘Stranger Today’. It’s the sound of three friends totally at ease in their own space, discontent with being anywhere else; a vibrant document of what it’s like to be young, invigorated and amongst people who feel the same. “Perhaps the best thing Our Girl have put out, we’re totally addicted.” – Clash (on ‘Our Girl’) “…one of the most exciting new bands around.” – The Line of Best Fit “The fuzzy-pop, borderline-shoegaze track features chaotic, noisy indie-rock guitars that are perfectly offset by Nathan’s soothing, reassuring pop vocals. The result is a blissful, dreamy haze that you’ll want to relive again and again.” – Paste Magazine (on ‘Our Girl’) “…the trio make overcast, shoegaze-indebted indie that whips and swirls with uncompromising force.” – NME.com Artist Our Girl Genre Rock And Pop Label Cannibal Hymns Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings LP1 1. Our Girl 2. Being Around 3. In My Head 4. I Really Like It 5. Josephine 6. Two Life 7. Level 8. Sub Rosa 9. I Wish It Was Sunday 10. Heat 11. Boring LP2 'Bedroom Record’ 1. I Really Like It 2. Being Around 3. Two Life 4. Careful 5. I Wish It Was Sunday 6. Our Girl (Demo) 7. I Really Don't Mind 8. Whatever (Demo) 9. 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