Dreamy, melodic, indie band Beau has released their latest masterpiece album Girl Cried Wolf, telling tales of endurance, reflection, and what it means to grow.
Beau, a band consisting of longtime friends Heather Goldin and Emma Jenney, has been making music together since childhood. Nearly a decade
ago, they released a self-titled EP and their debut LP That Thing Reality. Since then, they’ve performed in the U.S. and Europe. During this time, they navigated the rapid, intense experiences of their 20s, marked by personal growth and challenges. Their latest work, Girl Cried Wolf, stems from this period of introspection.
Heather Goldin and Emma Jenney, the duo behind Beau, began making music together as teenagers, improvising in Washington Square Park. Both
daughters of painters, they bonded through sound and poetry, growing up
side by side. Their music, a mix of synth dream pop, bedroom rock, electronic dance, and alternative pop punk, defies genre boundaries. As they navigated heartbreaks and tested relationships, their new album Girl Cried Wolf reflects on growth, resilience, and embracing the future while letting go of the past.
The album starts with a dreamy intro that transitions into ‘Talk to Me,’ an opening track that begins to tell a story that’s begging to be heard. As we move through the album, we begin to understand the narrative that Goldin and Jenney are brave enough to share with us. Their brave and honest self reflection is communicated in such a palatable and relatable way: “You’re moving on, I’m just writing this song”.
As we near the cessation of the album, we begin to notice themes of anger and acceptance. The instrumentals grow heavier and louder, with lyrics that mimic a familiar Alanis Morissette-style anger and a desire for more. At this point, there’s a desire to erase the remnants of the relationship,
symbolizing that we may have reached a point of closure to the
relationship.
What makes music so impressionable and lasting to the audience is its power to make you feel a little bit less alone, maybe even a little less crazy. Beau describes this best in ‘Home To’, the final track on the album: “I can’t get you out of my head / I guess I’ll sing instead.”
Girl Cried Wolf is an extraordinary album that perfectly encapsulates exactly who Beau have become and who they are painting themselves to be. The duality of desperation and reconciliation is a tough concept to approach, but Beau has done it in such a way that listeners will be able to find a piece of themselves in each song, whether they’d like to or not.