Parenthetical Girls
Entanglements

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Portand, Oregon’s Parenthetical Girls have traded in their small-screen sincerity for a bold and blustering Technicolour - 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 - all set to an elaborately orchestrated olio of Modern Classical and timeworn, traditional American pop forms.

*  Borrowing string-swept sentimentality from the likes of Van Dyke Parks, Scott Walker, Jack Nitzsche, and Burt Bacharach, Entanglements draws colourful 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.

*  Drafted in fits and starts over the course of the last three years, the seeds for Entanglements were initially conceived by Parenthetical Girls founder, Zac Pennington as a conceptual/orchestral follow-up to (((GRRRLS))), the band’s self-released debut.

Tracklist: 01. Four Words 02. Avenue of Trees 03. Unmentionables 04. Gut Symmetries 05. Song For Ellie Greenwich 06. Young Eucharists 07. Entanglement 08. Abandoning 09. The Former 10. Windmills of Your Mind 11. This Regrettable End