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The new album from Christopher Owens  ‘Chrissybaby Forever’ is available on limited edition 12″ gatefold vinyl, including lyric inserts,  Christopher Owens released the song “Selfish Feelings” along with unexpected news about a new solo album,  For those who’ve been following Owens’ career, it represents a scrappy return to form. Recorded in San Francisco with engineer J.J. Wiesler, Chrissybaby Forever is arguably the most Girls-ish thing Owens has released since that band evaporated in 2012. It’s also the kind of record that most fans seem to want from Owens: jangly guitars, heart-on-your-sleeve pop missives about being in love and fucking up and just trying your best. The Album opener “Another Loser Fuckup” could be a slightly grown-up spiritual cousin to Girls’ “Lust For Life.”) Even though it’s been less than a year since the release of his last album, A New Testament, Owens credits an overabundance of free time and a health-driven need to keep busy as reasons for the new record’s quick birth. But there were more pragmatic factors at play, too. Having toured his previous two albums supported by a large backing band, Christopher Owens gets from the new record an opportunity to present himself in a way similar to his earliest days as a musician, both aesthetically and thematically. “I think this is just my fundamental view on life,” says Owens of the new record’s subject matter. “It’s a struggle to get though the days, but you find ways. There are friends, and there’s happiness, and there’s small rewards here and there … and that’s what you have to cling to.”