MP3 - Details
| when: |
Fri 21 November |
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| Event title |
Foggy Notions Presents: Parenthetical Girls |
| Where: |
Whelans
- Dublin |
| Category: |
Gigs |
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Foggy Notions presents:
PARENTHETICAL GIRLS
Nov 21, Whelan’s
Tickets from WAV, City Discs, Tickets.ie, Road, Ticketmaster.ie
“Tipped by Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett as the best album of
2008...Parenthetical Girls are long overdue some fat hype.” - Plan B
“…experimental modern opera, a glittering Broadway musical, the
soundtrack to a 1940s Hollywood romance, a carousing circus troupe and
a fragile, solitary torch singer crooning to the moon…” – The Guardian
“…impeccable arrangements, wormy melodies, and jarring carnal imagery…” – Spin.com
Parenthetical Girls (formerly The Swastika Girls) are an experimental
pop band formed in Everett, Washington, and currently based in
Portland, Oregon.
Begun primarily as a recording project, the current touring version of
the band consists of Zac Pennington, Rachael Jensen, Eddy Crichton and
Matt Carlson. Former touring members Jherek Bischoff and Sam Mickens
(The Dead Science) continue to contribute to the group's recorded
output.
Having first taken their name from the Brian Eno composition “Swastika
Girls,” original members Zac Pennington and Jeremy Cooper self-released
their limited run debut EP Christmas With Swastika Girls in 2002.
Following Cooper's departure and a name change, Pennington released
(((GRRRLS))), the band's vinyl-only debut album on his own Slender
Means Society label in 2004. Recorded with the help of Jherek Bischoff
and Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu ), (((GRRRLS))) features a total of seven
songs repeated on both sides of the vinyl record, each side featuring
the respective mixes of Stewart and Bischoff.
This was followed by the digital-only self-release of their second
Christmas-themed EP Christmas With Parenthetical Girls that same year,
as well as their second album Safe As Houses (released on Slender Means
Society in the U.S and on Acuarela Discos in Europe), the expanded CD
reissue of the (((GRRRLS))) album, and a third self-released Christmas
EP, A Parenthetical Girls Family Christmas in 2006. A split 7-inch with
The Dead Science was released by Obsolete Vernacular in 2007.
New album Entanglements sees the band trading in their small-screen
sincerity for a bold and blustering Technicolour – a lush, longing and
lusty celluloid schmaltz out now on Tomlab.
An orchestral song-cycle of grand sonic ambition, Entanglements is an
eleven-song, linear narrative of ascendancy, adolescent sexuality,
quantum mechanics, consent and other moral ambiguities.
Borrowing from the string-swept sentimentality of Van Dyke Parks, Scott
Walker, Jack Nitzsche, and Burt Bacharach, Entanglements draws colorful
lines across the expanse between these orchestral pop antiquities and
the more formidable strains of Modern Classical composers.
Parenthetical Girls have played with Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.
www.slendermeanssociety.com/parenthetical
www.myspace.com/parentheticalgirlsband
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