“With his now-defunct band Girls, Christopher Owens was a stylistic crate-digger, repurposing classic-rock gestures. On his solo debut, he nails a Seventies-singer-songwriter sound oozing treacle and sincerity, all folk guitar, flutes, supper-club saxes and vintage keyboards. It fits the concept: a loosely autobiographical musician-in-love song cycle that reprises the same pastoral melody, from the”
“The former Girls frontman steps out with his first solo LP, a sort of prog-folk concept album based on very specific details of a particular moment in Owens' life with instrumentation heavy on sax and flutes.”
