Christopher Owens – boy without girls

October 28, 2012 by jabbacop 1 Comment

Christopher Owens prefers to write his uncomfortable life down instead of going to a doctor, and the results were impressive. “Father, Son, Holy Ghost” was a great album with the “Girls“, on which he described the effects of his nomad-like life in a separated religious cult.

Luckily he was “adopted” by a multimillionaire who was into art and music, named Stanley Marsh. He saw the potential power of the disturbed mind of Owen and helped him especially on the mental side, as he points out.  The following success was remarkable so the music news and blogs were quite shocked, when he tweeted the end of the frontman role. Now, four months after he surprisingly left the band, Christopher Owens made a 15-pics photo campaign for Yves Saint-Laurent and (what a coincidence!) announced this week the release and tracklist of his new album “Lysandre”, coming up in January 2013, on the label “Fat Possum”.

Producer of this conceptional LP is Doug Boehm, who already did the work for the Girls. Theme of the album is his journey on the tour from SF to NY, then to France where he met Lysandre, his affair for the last years. He fell in love and it didn’t end well, obviously: Take a look at the tracklist and listen to the first 2 tracks. I added also a recently released and remade track of Owens first band “Holy Shit”, and the last videoclip of The Girls, still with Owen at that point.

01. “Lysandre’s Theme”
02. “Here We Go”
03. “New York City”
04. “A Broken Heart”
05. “Here We Go Again”
06. “Riviera Rock”
07. “Love Is In The Ear Of The Listener”
08. “Lysandre”
09. “Everywhere You Knew”
10. “Closing Theme”
11. “Part Of Me (Lysandre’s Epilogue)”