Forever Five: Goat Girl

Goat Girl: Art-punk shapeshifters, scene disruptors, harmony-slinging agents of chaos. Photo by Ella Harris

Goat Girl have always thrived in the in-between. Too melodic to be punk, too gnarly to be pop, too clever to be boxed in. Across their shapeshifting records, they’ve built a world that balances social critique with surreal humour, harmony with tension, mess with precision. And true to form, their Forever Five is a beautiful mess of influences.

It’s a scattershot sound map that somehow makes perfect sense—baroque drama, political fury, woozy jazz-folk, futuristic R&B, and indie sprawl all elbowing each other for space. You can trace the individual tastes of Ruby, Lottie, Roost, and Holly, but you also feel the glue that holds them together: a shared love of contrast, invention, and unfiltered emotion.

Like their music, these picks feel stitched together from sharp edges and soft underbellies. Intellect and instinct. Grit and grace. It’s chaos—but it’s their chaos. And it works. Gloriously.

LISTEN — GOAT GIRL'S FOREVER FIVE

A trio of tracks from each of the band's choices, plus an essential five tracks with their own voice.

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE — YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE (2003)

(chosen by Lottie)

RAVYN LANAE — BIRD'S EYE (2024)

(chosen by Roost)

ROBERT WYATT — OLD ROTTENHAT (1986)

(chosen by Lottie)

SYSTEM OF A DOWN — HYPNOTIZE (2005)

(chosen by Holly)

J.S. BACH — Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I (1722)

(chosen by Ruby)