Christopher OwensBest Christopher Owens Albums Ranked

I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair

pastemagazine

8.1

“The nine years that have passed since the Girls frontman's last solo album have been relentlessly brutal, but in his on-record grief there is a self-discovery that ebbs and flows through solace.”

I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair

pitchfork

7.2

“The former frontman of Girls has been through hell. His first new album in nine years is a travelogue of his journey.”

Lysandre

rollingstone

7.0

“With his now-defunct band Girls, Christopher Owens was a stylistic crate-digger, repurposing classic-rock gestures. On his solo debut, he nails a Seventies-singer-songwriter sound oozing treacle and sincerity, all folk guitar, flutes, supper-club saxes and vintage keyboards. It fits the concept: a loosely autobiographical musician-in-love song cycle that reprises the same pastoral melody, from the”

Chrissybaby Forever

pitchfork

6.9

“Chrissybaby Forever, Christopher Owens' third post-Girls solo collection, is the product of a fruitful, month-long recording session, with Owens playing all the instruments. It's more imaginative, looser, more lively, and more appealing than his music has been in a few years.”

A New Testament

pitchfork

6.7

“Christopher Owens' latest solo album hits much closer to the ideas represented by his former outfit Girls than last year's Lysandre. However, Owens’ tendency to borrow from classic pop is starting to catch up with him.”

Lysandre

pitchfork

6.5

“The former Girls frontman steps out with his first solo LP, a sort of prog-folk concept album based on very specific details of a particular moment in Owens' life with instrumentation heavy on sax and flutes.”