It marks his first full-length project since 2015's ‘Chrissybaby Forever‘ Girls ’ Christopher Owens has announced his new solo album ‘I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair’ marking his first LP in nine years. The new LP is set for release on October 18 via True Panther Records (Girls, King Krule , Grace Ives ) and you can pre-order / presave it here . ‘I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair’ was co-produced by Owens and longtime collaborator Doug Boehm (Girls, French Kicks, Twin Peaks) in various San Francisco studios.
Along with the announcement of the album, Owens also shared his new single ‘No Good’. The track features a Jangly guitar rock sound with lyrics such as: “No, not another love song / Not one more song where I’m pretending / Everything will be okay / I died the day you left me,” describing a vulnerable and less optimistic place. The song also came with a video directed by filmmaker Rebekah Sherman-Myntti which sees the singer performing the track acoustically with a 12-string guitar in an empty office space.
‘No Good’ follows Owen’s previously released single ‘I Think About Heaven’ . Both songs will be featured on the forthcoming album. Speaking about the themes and experiences that helped create the LP in a press release, the singer shared:” 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 .