And so Girls are gone; nothing but a memory now overly saturated in a sepia-tinted sorta nostalgia.
Their previous London showing back in May at Kentish Town's HMV Forum inadvertently transpired to be their UK swan song, and it proved more lacklustre than even excessively lugubrious
Album track, Lauren Marie. Yet you always sensed that Girls was merely a puppet constructed to play out the songs of
Christopher Owens in as fully-fleshed a manner as possible. However, as promised within that very same felling, sweeping statement in which the disbanding of the band was announced, Owens here returns. He's got over Girls
pretty darn quick as a Colgate-whitened, piss-poor actor may shakily enunciate in some shoddy US sitcom, and that's to his great credit and our greater delight. He's to release a solo LP entitled – cue quizzical looks of bemusement –
Lysandre at the turn of 2013, and here's its theme, snuggly spooned and segued by its lead single, Here We Go. Lysandre's Theme is somewhat medieval in vibe, as it recalls Auld Lang Syne and the entire Circulus discography all at once although it's the latter that gives a rather more crystalline indication of the fluid '60s ditty spin that is to be respun now flying solo. "So, here we go/ With my faith in my hands where they should be/ Aeroplane take us all away" he begins, explicitly differentiating between then and now; band and little boy as yet lost and alone. Yet this is promising, if openly exposed songsmithery to rekindle that sense of great "fellowship" those unduly avid, smitten post-teens somehow felt for Girls. Think it's fair to say the boy'll do quite alright for himself without Chet White in tow...
Lysandre is expected January 14th, 2013 via
Turnstile Music.
