Couldn't Save Us From My Gut [LP] (Various Colors Vinyl)

Ok Cowgirl - Couldn't Save Us From My Gut [LP] (Various Colors Vinyl)

"EVERYTHING IS FUCKED!'... Lavigne screams over screeching guitars, aspiring to Larry David-levels of filterless mind-speaking, politeness be damned. The result is more than pretty, pretty good." - Paste ('Best New Songs' on "Larry David")

Track by track, Lavigne's sparkling vocals lead the listener through a full spectrum of feelings - in love to lovesick, in despair to full catharsis... If you see the beauty in tension and release, this one's for you." - Alternative Press 

"... easily wrangles your attention between sprinkles of melodic distortion with big '90s Garbage vibes. That said, it's really Leah Lavigne's voice that's the true star of the show, delivering her quiet, bedroom-style balladry with a lonely warble reminiscent of a Tammy Wynette-style country star." - The FADER (on "Little Splinters")

"'Little Splinters' lands somewhere between this current wave of emotive songwriters with jagged riffs and the dreamier pop numbers of prior last decade's contemporaries, such as Angel Olsen and Mitski at their breezy indie-pop peaks." - FLOOD (on "Little Splinters")

"an emotionally charged, rip-roaring indie rock record born out of unfiltered vulnerability and raw grit... a soundtrack to personal growth and self-discovery that hits hard and leaves a lasting mark on both the ears and the heart." - Atwood Magazine

Couldn't Save Us From My Gut, Ok Cowgirl's debut LP, carries in it a curlicue thread of that wild western ethos - a dare to establish your own law, to venture beyond the world of agreed-upon norms of right and wrong. Enter the country classic: wide open spaces, room to make a big mistake. Existing in that freedom is an attitude Lavigne aspires to as much as she struggles with - by her own admission, it's the "extreme opposite" of the way she's been conditioned. Each of the album's ten tracks finds Lavigne and her Brooklyn indie rock quintet wrangling self-empowerment in a variety of contexts - romantic love, societal obligation, how merciless a day in America can be - and working to parse their own truth from a tangle of inherited noise. But the record's title is something of an admission of success - Ok Cowgirl have started living by their own code, and they're not likely to quit. 

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Side A:
Little Splinters 
Forever 
Our Love 
Mars Cheese Castle 
Larry David 

Side B: 
On My Mind 
Swirling 
Diner Song
Abbey
Nighttime Thinking