In addition to being one of the best comedies on television, Girlsis also a must-watch for music fans, as the series regularly debuts new tracks from beloved artists. Last season, Beck, Jenny Lewis and Miguel all lent then-unreleased cuts to Lena Dunhams HBO show, and for Girls fourth season, music supervisor Manish Raval has lined up new songs from St. Vincent, Grimesand Family of the Year, according toBillboard.
Season Four of Girls will also feature well-known cuts from Charles Mingus, Chet Baker and Patsy Cline, but its the song debuts that are the marquee musical moments. St. Vincents Teenage Talk will close out one episode, while Grimes Entropy, co-written withBleachers frontman and Dunhams boyfriend Jack Antonoff, will highlight another episodes closing party scene. Family of the Year, a Los Angeles indie rock group that created Oscar buzz for their track Hero, featured inRichard Linklaters Boyhood, also contribute a new song titled Carry Me.
In an interview with Billboard, Raval explained how he acquired the exclusive tracks. I said to St. Vincents people, We love Annie [Clark], and she and Lena are friends. Is there anything laying around? They sent us a demo of a song called Teenage Talk that she hadnt released yet and it was amazing, he said. Lena flipped for it. In the case of Entropy, Raval quickly claimed the Antonoff-Grimes track after Dunham played hima demo of the song over the phone.
We instantly said, Thats ours, dont give it to anyone,' Raval said. It ends one of my favorite episodes ever a big party event leads us on a very melancholy note but theres something so awesomely fun and energetic about this track that really plays against the moment.