Browse by Artist: PARENTHETICAL GIRLS

Artist:	PARENTHETICAL GIRLS
Title:	(((GRRRLS)))
Label:	SLENDER MEANS SOCIETY
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TOM 115CD

Audio CD with enhanced material. "Now it's four years on. In that time, Parenthetical Girls have released two more critically-acclaimed full lengths (2006's Safe As Houses [Slender Means Society] and this year's Entanglements [Tomlab]), toured the US and Europe with the likes of Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Los Campesinos!, Evangelicals and Casiotone For the Painfully Alone (whose album Etiquette, incidentally, features a rather lovely cover of (((GRRRLS)))' closing track 'Love Connection'). We are pleased to finally present (((GRRRLS))) with the wide distribution that it deserves for the first time."

Artist:	PARENTHETICAL GIRLS
Title:	Safe As Houses
Label:	SLENDER MEANS SOCIETY
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TOM 116CD

"Recorded with the band's previous three-piece configuration (an ensemble made up of Pennington and Dead Science members Sam Mickens and Jherek Bischoff-a regular contributor to Xiu Xiu and Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, who also served as producer for the record), Safe As Houses embraces the group's shrewd attention to the awkward confluence of experimental and pop musics-creating a record that is at once more difficult and more intrinsically palatable (not to mention significantly darker) than anything so far bearing the Parenthetical Girls name. Which is to say, it's much better."

Artist:	PARENTHETICAL GIRLS
Title:	Entanglements
Label:	TOMLAB (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TOM 120CD

"Portland, Oregon's Parenthetical Girls have traded in their small-screen sincerity for a bold and blustering technicolor -- a lush, longing and lusty celluloid schmaltz they call Entanglements. 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 string-swept sentimentality from the likes 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 -- its hues distantly reminiscent of names like Krzystof Penderecki, Philip Glass, and Gavin Bryars."

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