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When I'm Gone

Track 8 of Everything Goes Wrong, posted by Stereogum on July 15, 2009.
Vivian Girls, from Everything Goes Wrong (2009)

The album credits all three members. It was recorded at the Distillery in March 2009. Stereogum's Brandon Stosuy posted it as a new track on July 15, 2009, hearing echoes of Black Tambourine and semi-buried harmonies, the earliest public release we found. Drowned in Sound said it sees new harmonic heights scaled, and The Stranger named it and "Can't Get Over You" as the highlights. KEXP calls it the album's centerpiece, melancholy and thrilling, driven by Goodman and Koehler, about a relationship gone sour. It was not a single and has no chart history or official video that we found, and the band has said nothing about it that we located.

Live, it was song eight in a July 4, 2009 Brooklyn set, appeared in their last show on March 2, 2014 at Baby's All Right and was second-to-last in the main set at Warsaw in Brooklyn on October 17, 2019. We assume our upload is the album recording.

On stage

  • 2014-03-02, Baby's All Right, Brooklyn The final show before the break-up.
  • 2019-10-17, Warsaw, Brooklyn A reunion-era show.

Sources

  1. New Vivian Girls, When I'm Gone, Stereogum (2009-07-15)
  2. Everything Goes Wrong (album), Wikipedia
  3. Vivian Girls, Everything Goes Wrong, Drowned in Sound (2009-09-21)
  4. The life, death and rebirth of Vivian Girls, KEXP (2019-09-19)