Goat Girl Unveil New EP: Below The Waste (Orchestrated)
The new release comes just after the one-year anniversary of the South London band’s third album, with four tracks beautifully reimagined.
Goat Girl return with Below The Waste (Orchestrated), a hauntingly beautiful reimagining of four tracks from their acclaimed third album. A year on from the release of Below The Waste, the South London trio revisit some of the record’s quieter moments, transforming them into sweeping, cinematic pieces that expose new emotional depths beneath the original recordings.
Known for their ever-evolving blend of post-punk bite, garage rock edge, and dream-pop haze, Goat Girl continue to stretch the bounds of their sound. This time, they’re trading propulsive rhythms for classical textures. Across Below The Waste (Orchestrated) they reinterpret ‘sleep talk’, ‘perhaps’, ‘tcnc’, and ‘wasting’ with a chamber ensemble of flutes, bass clarinet, and strings, arranged in collaboration with rising artists Aga Ujma and Slow Cooked.
Recorded live at Total Refreshment Centre with Syd Kemp and mastered by Harvel Birrell, the EP breathes with the warmth of the room it was born in. Opener ‘sleep talk (chamber ensemble)’ replaces the original’s mellotron with a trembling string quartet, gently cradling the band’s signature three-part harmonies. Stripped of a hammering pulse, Lottie Pendlebury’s vocals surface with newfound fragility and force. It’s full of heart, bleeding at the seams. Instrumental versions of ‘perhaps’ and ‘tcnc’ allow melodies to unfold in unexpected ways with a rich and impassioned presence, while ‘wasting’ closes the set in cinematic fashion — accordion is swapped for flute, the low-end lifted by a solemn bass clarinet.
Where the original Below The Waste is sprawling, textured and industrial at times, Below The Waste (Orchestrated) reveals the delicate core of Goat Girl’s songwriting. These orchestral interpretations are not just embellishments. They’re spacious, focused works that showcase Goat Girl’s command of arrangement and atmosphere.
The new EP lands ahead of the band’s first ever North American headline tour this autumn, where they’ll be joined by singer-songwriter Maria BC. It’s a poignant marker of a band continuing to evolve. They allow themselves to reflect and rework, imbuing a spirit that is restless, imaginative, and always reaching for something new.
Watch the video for ‘wasting (chamber ensemble)’ below:
Photo Credit: Ella Harris
