Pedro the Lion Live, Opinions on Horsegirl & Julia Jacklin
Sound Opinions
Sound Opinions
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot welcome Pedro The Lion to the Goose Island Tap Room in Chicago for a live performance and interview. David Bazan recently brought back the Pedro The Lion band name for a five album cycle about each of the places he lived while growing up. The second installment, Havasu, came out earlier this year. Plus Jim and Greg review new albums from Horsegirl and Julia Jacklin.
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Featured Songs:
Pedro the Lion, "First Drum Set," Havasu, Polyvinyl, 2022
Horsegirl, "Billy," Versions of Modern Performance, Matador, 2022
Horsegirl, "Live and Ski," Versions of Modern Performance, Matador, 2022
Horsegirl, "Anti-glory," Versions of Modern Performance, Matador, 2022
Horsegirl, "Homage to Birdnoculars," Versions of Modern Performance, Matador, 2022
Julia Jacklin, "Ignore Tenderness," Pre Pleasure, Polyvinyl, 2022
Julia Jacklin, "I Was Neon," Pre Pleasure, Polyvinyl, 2022
Julia Jacklin, "Too In Love To Die," Pre Pleasure, Polyvinyl, 2022
Julia Jacklin, "End of Friendship," Pre Pleasure, Polyvinyl, 2022
Julia Jacklin, "Be Careful With Yourself," Pre Pleasure, Polyvinyl, 2022
Pedro the Lion, "Foregone Conclusions," Achilles Heel, Jade Tree, 2004
Pedro the Lion, "Don't Wanna Move (Live on Sound Opinions)," Havasu, Polyvinyl, 2022
Pedro the Lion, "Magazine," Control, Jade Tree, 2002
Pedro the Lion, "First Drum Set (Live on Sound Opinions)," Havasu, Polyvinyl, 2022
Pedro the Lion, "Teenage Sequencer," Havasu, Polyvinyl, 2022
Pedro the Lion, "Making the Most of It (Live on Sound Opinions)," Havasu, Polyvinyl, 2022
Common, "Time Travelin' (A Tribute to Fela)," Like Water For Chocolate, MCA, 2000
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon, you can hear it via the Patreon page and free! |
| 0:30.0 | You're listening to Sound Opinions, and this week we have Pedro the Lion performing live at the Coos Island Tap Room. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Jim D. Regatta, and I'm Greg Kot. |
| 0:39.0 | But first, Jim and I have two new albums to review by Horse Girl and Julia Jacqueline. |
| 1:01.0 | That is a little bit of the song, Billy, from the first full album by the Chicago Group Horse Girl, Greg. |
| 1:11.0 | I don't think we've had as much excitement in Chicago about a signing from Matador Records, the storied indie label, since Louis Faire. |
| 1:23.0 | And yet, these three young women are at a much different point in their lives and career than good old Liz was. |
| 1:32.0 | They met in high school, Nora Chang, Penelope Loanstein, and Gigi Reese. |
| 1:38.0 | Started playing music together, really young. They're part of this burgeoning exploding scene of teen indie rock bands in Chicago that are making a lot of noise nationally and dare I say internationally. |
| 1:52.0 | They recorded this album at Steve Albini's legendary electrical audio, with producer John Agnello, who's worked with Kurt Vile, the breeders, Dinosaur Jr., and it's making some noise. |
| 2:06.0 | We're getting social media notices, hey, when are you going to review Horse Girl? |
| 2:12.0 | It was the summer, we were busy. |
| 2:14.0 | So the album is called Versions of Modern Performance, Greg. |
| 2:18.0 | Let us play a track and we'll dive in with our opinions. |
| 2:21.0 | This is called Live and Ski by the Chicago Trio Horse Girl on Sound Opinions. |
| 2:42.0 | That is Live and Ski from the Horse Girl debut album Versions of Modern Performance. |
| 3:04.0 | You mentioned Liz Fair at the top, and it's appropriate because the band Horse Girl is very much, even though they are children of the 21st century. |
| 3:17.0 | They are living their heads there in the 90s and 80s. |
| 3:20.0 | It would have been a band that would have sounded, their sound is very much right in with the alt-roxene of the early 90s. |
| 3:31.0 | And that's not a diss. |
| 3:33.0 | To the point where the band that they love the most, Sonic Youth, that they say, Agnello was a producer for them. |
| 3:41.0 | Steve Shelley and Leonardo, who happened to be two former members of Sonic Youth, both play on this record and a couple of tracks. |
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