I think I must have been on vacation for the week or something, because I remember returning home from a bike ride one day last summer and reading, with sadness, that Christopher Owens had left Girls. I still consider Girls' two albums and an EP to be some of my favorite recordings of the last several years.
Then, early this year, Owens released his first solo record Lysandre. That record contained a good deal of the emotion that characterized Girls; but the fuzzy, reverby, sometimes dreamy sounds of Girls were mostly gone, replaced by a cleaner sound that featured lots of acoustic guitar work along with the full band.
Today, in conjunction with the announcement an all-acoustic tour, Owens is giving away an all-acoustic version of Lysandre. Album standout "Here We Go" retains its bounciness while losing its aeroplane taking off outro. Conversely, the already mostly acoustic "Everywhere You Knew" picks up about forty-five seconds of plaintive strumming at the end of the fully acoustic track.
It's fun to compare the records side-by-side; but even if you don't own Lysandre, you can't really pass up the free version, can you?
His acoustic solo tour will bring Owens to New York's The Slipper Room on June 15th and 16th.
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