Beau wants you to listen and likewise talk to them. Maybe they don’t necessarily want to hear from you specifically, but the name of their new single is “Talk To Me” and well, that was awkward. My attempts at humor should probably be stifled at some point. If you want the real information, read below.
The New York City duo of Heather Goldin (singer/songwriter) and Emma Jenney (guitarist/songwriter) who record and perform as Beau have announced the September 13 release of their new album Girl Cried Wolf via Immortal Records. Nearly a decade has passed since the back-to-back releases of their self-titled EP and debut album That Thing Reality in 2015, and it has been experienced as one’s 20’s usually is: quickly and overwhelmingly, with a lot learned and a lot lost. Over the years they have played shows both stateside and in Europe but between gigs, life was also happening. Great loves were realized, hearts were broken. Friendships intensified, others faded away. The path forward, once full of nervous expectation, became a place of bittersweet surrender. It’s from this place of introspection that Beau is calling out with a release of grief and hope. Once kids shamelessly singing over the traffic of their native Greenwich Village, Goldin and Jenney are growing up and telling us how on Girl Cried Wolf.
Today they share the first tease of Girl Cried Wolf with the emotive single and video “Talk To Me.” Goldin and Jenney have been friends since childhood and their bond (and by extension relationships in general) is the star of the video. The band share, “‘Talk To Me’ is about feeling desperate. Those moments when you just need a phone call or need to speak to someone who won’t answer. It’s a feeling of loneliness, but also finding hope in the midst of it all. The video amplifies the raw love we have for each other in our truest and most real nature.”
The video was directed by Charles Billot who shares “I drew inspiration from the song’s theme. The concept revolves around the duality of waiting for a call for help. In relationships, we build habits, safe spaces, and memories and when separation occurs, we revert to familiar reflexes. By splitting the screen and overlaying similar actions, I emphasized this duality, the act of waiting, and the reenactment of memories. A continuous shot of Heather singing to the camera, with Emma’s arm over her, translates these past feelings and the yearning for someone who is no longer present. We constructed a room in the studio where they shared memories but no longer interacted, capturing the essence of their disconnected yet intertwined experiences.”
Pre-order Girl Cried Wolf here.
Beau will be playing “Talk To Me” as well as previewing other songs off Girl Cried Wolf at a very special one-off show tonight at Jean’s NYC (415 Lafayette St.). The band is on at 10PM and tickets are available here. In celebration of Girl Cried Wolf Beau will play a record release party on September 17 at Brooklyn’s Baby’s All Right. Tickets are on-sale now and available here.
Before Beau meant anything more than beautiful, Goldin and Jenneywere just 13-year-olds improvising on patches of grass in New York City’s Washington Square Park for friends and strangers. Both the daughters of painters, the two became sisters in sound and poetry, weaving through teenage-hood as fast-growing vines around a pillar of self-expression. That was the beginning of Beau, making music best-described as melodic and lyrically impassioned, determinedly untethered to one particular genre.
Working with engineer/producer Brandon Bost (mixer of Barbie: The Movie Original Soundtrack, Mark Ronson, Maggie Rogers), Beau has compiled a montage of the quarter-life crisis. Slightly veering from earlier upbeat releases like “Dance With Me,” and “Animal Kingdom,” Girl Cried Wolf still has the “Beau charm,” as Jenney and Goldin like to call it. The LP’s eight tracks are catchy, and the words are fervent. Sonically, the album is a callback to millennial pop punk and alternative triumphs from high school days (think Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes, Rilo Kiley, Fiona Apple) with a touch of dreamy synth pop (think Beach House and Cocteau Twins), tied together with some bedroom electronica (channeling Gorillaz, Animal Collective, CocoRosie). Across the album Beau takes us on a journey of stages, from desperate grief to ecstatic joy evoking a feeling of sunbaked nostalgia.
It’s no coincidence that the songs are reminiscent of an earlier era; their roots were written years before and given new life in 2024. Credit for this revival goes to Bost, who, in his search for inspiration, unearthed gems from the Beau archives and encouraged the women to revisit and breathe new life into old demos. The recording process was geared toward retaining a raw, guitar-heavy sound through the use of vintage guitars, mics and synthesizers. In the lead-up to the album, Emma and Heather were both in phases of looking back and moving on and Girl Cries Wolf relates stories of people coming and going. Almost as a premonition of hardship and healing to come, these songs of the past perfectly illustrate the storm before today’s calm.
Ultimately, Girl Cried Wolf sends a message of reflection and endurance. Beau recognizes the never-ending dance between light and dark and is telling you to watch the show. As in the final song “Home To”, once you recognize darkness coming toward you, you can give it a name, shrug and say, “I guess I’ll sing instead.”
Beau Tour Dates
7/10 – Jean’s NYC – New York, NY
917 – Baby’s All Right – Brooklyn, NY
