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Who sang lust for life12/3/2023 Jeremy Spencer – a founding member of Fleetwood Mac who left the band and joined the Children of God in 1971 – gave Chris his first guitar.Īfter spending some time living in Slovenia with the Children of God, Chris escaped the cult, moving to Amarillo, Texas where his sister lived. He was born into the religious cult The Children of God (now known as The Family International) where, during his time there, his brother died of pneumonia due to strict anti-medicine rules, and his mother, alongside the other women of the cult, were convinced through the word of God to engage in sex work to gain means for the rest of the members. Within three years of the record’s release, Girls had disbanded.Ĭhristopher Owens’ story is complicated, and there is no way to explain Girls without explaining him. But the precariousness depicted in these songs was authentic. Pitchfork gave it a 9.1 rating and The Guardian, in their five star review, heralded it as “potentially a modern classic”. They quickly found an audience online that related to their tragic songs with a sunny sound – songs which talked about feeling invisible and about wanting the seeming happiness that others were showing.īut Girls and their first LP, Album, were providing more than just comfort to a digital sea of lost children, it was also an auditory work of grandeur, acclaimed upon its arrival. It was via MySpace that Girls, a California band based around the core duo of Christopher Owens and Chet “JR” White, came to be. Girls – with their heart-on-sleeve romanticism, rock ‘n’ roll excess and air of sincere tragedy – felt different. Around the mid-late ‘00s, a certain style had become a dominating force in US “indie” culture – black skinny jeans, the American Apparel aesthetic and crafted candid photography featuring plenty of cigarettes had become the pervasive look of MySpace pages, blogs, and editorial spreads in NYLON and Bullet (and every independent publication in between).Ī sense of ironic humour permeated mid-late ‘00s alternative music, from the brash statements and self-aware partying of the nu-rave /blog house acts (often indie kids at heart) and later the lo-fi rock bands with “slacker” looks and names like Times New Viking, Wavves and Psychedelic Horseshit.
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