Former Girls frontman Christopher Owens has announced his first new album in seven years. I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair will be out October 18 on True Panther Records. It includes the recently unveiled single ‘I Think About Heaven’, and the album’s opening track, ‘No Good’, is out today. Check it out below, along with an acoustic performance video directed by Rebekah Sherman-Myntti, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
Since releasing Vante with his band Curls in 2017, Owens endured a motorcycle accident that left him immobilized, experienced periods of homelessness, and struggled with the death of former Girls bandmate Chet “JR” White. In a press release, he described I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair as “a record about a journey back to the centre of myself.”
Owens co-produced the album in various San Francisco studios with longtime collaborator Doug Boehm. The song ‘This Is My Guitar’ features production from Ariel Rechtshaid and Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Jacob Portrait.
Introducing the themes behind the LP, Owens said: “In the second half of the Bible, Jesus asks ‘What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?’ Lately I’ve found it interesting to ask it in a different way. ‘What shall it profit a man, if he lose his whole world, and gain back his soul?’ And I think the answer would have to be something like — The Kingdom of Heaven.”
I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair Cover Artwork:
I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair Tracklist:
1. No Good
2. Beautiful Horses
3. I Think About Heaven
4. White Flag
5. I Know
6. So
7. This Is My Guitar
8. Distant Drummer
9. Two Words
10. Do You Need A Friend