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Christopher Owens, the rawboned San Francisco singer/songwriter with a far-out backstory and a modeling contract, has announced the release of his debut solo album, completed just months after leaving his band Girls. Called Lysandre, the LP comes out January 15th, 2013, via Fat Possum. It was mostly written all at once, shortly after the release of Girls’ debut, Album, and derives its name and inspiration from a real-life Lysandre whom Owens met and fell in love with on tour. “I decided to let the theme dictate the chords and form of the entire record,” he says, “Letting its chords be the colors on a palette to paint many pictures, allowing the theme to recur and tie the story together conceptually, making every song on the album akin to the other, never leaving the key of A.” Stream two songs below and, beneath them, read a full statement from Owens himself, a song-by-song explanation of the project he calls “the most focused effort I’ve ever made musically.”
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  • primaconnor-

    the acoustic album shits all over the original tbh

    27 Apr 10:33am Reply

  • xanaduuu

    omg

    24 Apr 4:49pm Reply

  • clubanddeform

    Christopher Owens is such a beautiful woman

    24 Apr 1:54am Reply

  • playgr0undtwist

    Abandoning the wind instruments was a necessary move, but Lysandre Acoustic still feels like less than half of Girls' capacity :(

    17 Apr 1:28pm Reply

  • MarcusLMosnter

    I don't understand the hate at all, his album is beautiful! But I guess when bands split up and members of it goes solo, people always tend to complain, well I liked it :)

    11 Apr 2:44pm Reply

  • Ceremonials

    What happened with Girls' lovely artwork? +1

    9 Apr 11:50pm Reply

  • lipwreck

    ego death

    9 Apr 7:04pm Reply

  • Blvd_Nights

    The more I listen to it, the more I think I enjoy it. I knew I liked it on my first listen but the melodies and the story have been stuck in my head since I first heard it two or so months ago. Riviera Rock is the only track I skip.

    28 Mar 8:38pm Reply

  • satan_88_level

    ^_^

    23 Mar 11:17am Reply

  • e8ghtmileshigh

    Finally got around to listening to this. Disappointed. Many of the same chord progressions from Album, Broken Dreams Club, Father Son. I'm afraid Mr. Owens is out of ideas.

    18 Mar 12:14am Reply

  • Eholove

    И песни ничего так..

    14 Mar 2:52pm Reply

  • la_louve

    классные волосы

    9 Mar 8:07am Reply

  • AndrzFAL

    What happened with Girls' lovely artwork?

    28 Feb 7:23pm Reply

  • kluk_jako_buk

    Well, he sure loves his hair, I can tell... Lysandre is pretty good, I never listened to Girls, though.

    13 Feb 12:48pm Reply

  • dj-juju

    Great album, but right now, all i want is Girls. RIP

    12 Feb 6:06pm Reply

  • musiikkionelo

    The album grew on me a lot , and i love the fact it's very short

    3 Feb 5:21pm Reply

  • not-mince-words

    why do people always feel the need to rate everything

    1 Feb 1:03am Reply

  • FlashRah

    Offensively inoffensive

    31 Jan 4:45am Reply

  • forgetty

    ლ(◉◞౪◟◉ )ლ

    28 Jan 7:31am Reply

  • megapotion

    dude needs to stop talking about that cult and focus more on his music

    27 Jan 8:28am Reply
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