Below the Waste (Goat Girl album)

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Below The Waste
Goat Girl, Below The Waste, album cover.webp
Studio album by
Released7 June 2024 (2024-06-07)
Length48:02
Label Rough Trade
Producer John "Spud" Murphy
Goat Girl chronology
On All Fours
(2021)
Below The Waste
(2024)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.6/10 [1]
Metacritic 80/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Clash 7/10 [4]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [5]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The Skinny (magazine) Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Far Out 4/5 [8]
Pitchfork 7.7/10 [9]

Below The Waste is the third studio album by English band Goat Girl. It was released on 7 June 2024 by Rough Trade Records. [10]

Contents

Production

The album was recorded primarily in Hellfire Studios in Ireland, with producer John 'Spud' Murphy (Lankum, Black Midi, Caroline). Additional sessions took place at Damon Albarn's Studio 13. [10]

Critical reception

On All Fours was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 80 based on 10 reviews. [2] AnyDecentMusic? gave the release a 7.6 out of 10 based on 12 reviews. [1]

Track listing

Below The Waste track listing
No.TitleLength
1."repreise"1:46
2."ride around"4:09
3."words fell out"3:01
4."play it down"3:40
5."tcnc"3:01
6."where's ur <3"3:32
7."prelude"0:23
8."tonight"2:54
9."motorway"3:21
10."s.m.o.g"0:37
11."take it away"2:30
12."pretty faces"2:15
13."perhaps"4:33
14."jump sludge"2:46
15."sleep talk"3:17
16."wasting"6:10

Charts

Chart performance for Below The Waste
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [11] 27
UK Albums (OCC) [12] 78
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [13] 4

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