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GIRLPOOL – ” It Gets More Blue “

Posted: April 16, 2017 in MUSIC
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“It Gets More Blue” is a song about how manic we can get when it comes to matters of the heart, and it demonstrates how Tucker and Tividad’s songwriting has matured since 2015’s “Before The World Was Big” Between albums, they’ve worked hard on filling out their sound—including adding drums to the mix, a giant departure for these two. It’s no longer just the naked sounds of Tividad and Tucker’s bass and guitar. There are little bursts of distortion, sweet guitar solos, chewy bass riffs, and quite a bit of echo. (If you were to just listen to the instrumental, you might think you were hearing a long-lost Pavement song.) The duo have also changed their delivery: Here, they’ve raised the volume of their voices to a bellow rather than a whisper, making the song all the more anthemic. Girlpool’s music has always seemed like an opportunity to peek into Tividad and Tucker’s private universe, and with “It Gets More Blue,” they open the door.

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Last month, Philly two-piece Girlpool announced a new album “Powerplant” , a new LP the band describes as embracing a “devastating emotional pragmatism.” That emphasis is clear in their latest single, “It Gets More Blue”, which exudes a sepia-toned melancholy without sacrificing the urgent riffage of the band’s sound.

Directed by Amalia Irons from a concept by the band’s Harmony Tividad, the accompanying music video sets outsized emotional theatrics .

“It Gets More Blue” by Girlpool from the album ‘Powerplant,’ available May 12th

GIRLPOOL – ” 123 “

Posted: March 6, 2017 in MUSIC
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Girlpool Debuts “123,” Their New Album’s Totally Gorgeous Opener

The new Girlpool song, “123,” starts like a lot of other Girlpool songs. Its quietly strumming opening guitar melody reminds me a bit of “Chinatown,” one of Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker’s best-loved tracks. But then, at around 50 seconds, the drums kick in. It’s our first taste of the full-band sound heard all over Girlpool’s ridiculously good new album, “Powerplant”. And it’s a beautiful moment.
“123” first turned up as a whispery demo on Cleo’s most recent straight-to-bandcamp solo EP. That version is arresting, but this one hits like a bag of bricks; it’s proof of the specific magic that happens when their voices come together. “One two three, will you list it off to me?/ How you’re sorry you feel weird in a jubilation dream,” they sing in the song’s euphoric final stretch.
The music video, directed by Nick Rattigan, is debuting above too. Harmony and Cleo both appear in the weirdly lovable clip, which, according to an email from the band, explores “a relationship that simultaneously exists as toxic and loving.” It was filmed by Stumble On Tapes, the entity responsible for an iconic early live video of the duo.
After some deliberation, Harmony and Cleo have decided to release Powerplant on Anti-Records, the indie label that’s put out albums by Cass McCombs, Neko Case, Deafheaven, and Elliott Smith. It comes out May 12th,

“123” by Girlpool from the album ‘Powerplant,’ available May 12th

GIRLPOOL – ” Your Heart “

Posted: January 14, 2016 in MUSIC
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The full-length debut from Girlpool, the Los Angeles based band made up of Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad, was raw, incredibly vulnerable, and brave. Working in a style that is antithetical to contemporary indie-pop music—lacking any percussion, the only instruments being electric guitar and bass—Girlpool’s sound resembles that of a conventional singer/songwriter or folk musician, a conscious decision makes the duo’s work remarkably postmodern. With subject matter that feels unapologetically personal and an artistic voice that is intelligently observant, Girlpool’s lyrics on Before The World Was Big evoke a nuanced sensitivity and an enlightened perspective about the total awkwardness that constitutes young adulthood.

GIRLPOOL – ” Things Are O.K “

Posted: January 14, 2016 in MUSIC
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The debut EP by Girlpool released at the end of last year is out now: Yup, another Girlpool track. You don’t often hear voices in unison singing the same notes, unless it’s a massive singalong. But I love how the girls in  Girlpool use this to great effect: it’s a song about the loss of love—friendship? Something more?—and the voices weave in and out, usually settling on the same notes and words, creating a united front for the good of companionship.

Girlpool have confirmed they’ll be heading over to Europe in September for a bunch or UK and European dates.

The UK leg of the tour will see the LA based Rockers take in End Of The Road festival in Dorset, followed by a series of headline UK shows in cities such as; Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds and Birmingham, before the duo head off into mainland Europe.

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GIRLPOOL – ” Before The World Was Big ” Best Albums Of 2015

Posted: October 22, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The world is fucking huge! That realization usually hits us sometime in our teens, and we start to come to terms with the fact that we’ll never get to go everywhere we want to go or do everything we want to do. It’s such an old way of thinking when we’re young setting ourselves up for disappointment before anything happens and Girlpool’s debut often feels like yearning for a life that’s too short. The duo is out there seeing the world now, but this album was mostly written before any of that seemed like a possibility. They sound both impossibly young and already world weary.

The debut album by Girlpool came out 1st June 2015 (2nd June in the US) on Wichita Recordings worldwide.

Available to pre-order now on Wichita store – CD + LP includes a signed poster, Directed by Allyssa Yohana. Taken from Girlpool’s debut album, “Before The World Was Big”, Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad, the two members of this band, are products of LA’s still-teeming DIY punk scene, but they don’t have to play loud to be heard. And they’ve since relocated to recent DIY mecca Philadelphia, but while they’re nearly as tuneful as their big-sister band Waxahatchee, they haven’t lost any of their basement-hardcore urgency. Instead, they sing songs about feminism and friendship and fucking assholes, their voices in nyah-nyah close harmony over their minimal guitar-and-bass backdrops. They don’t have a drummer because they’re too punk to need a drummer.

GIRLPOOL – ” Pretty “

Posted: September 8, 2015 in MUSIC
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Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker are Girlpool when they were 17 and 18, and they told anyone who asked them at the time that they were drawn to each other for their shared sense of purpose: “We wanted something that was honest and straightforward,” Tucker said “We both wanted to be super vulnerable…Because of the stripped down nature of our music, if one of us messes up, it’s incredibly noticeable. We’re not trying to hide.” In part, it is this clarity of purpose that resounds from the empty spaces on their debut LP. Their EP was shouted, and in its hardy squall, you could hear two powerful voices honing in on some way they might make a dent in the universe.

Somewhere between their formation and now, Tividad and Tucker have divined the starry-eyed power of the purest indie-pop. It is a romanticism that thrives on potential energy, on the contemplation of things that haven’t quite happened. Romanticism occurs in the distance between what might happen and what does, and listening to “Before the World Was Big” feels like walking through this exalted liminal space. “I feel safest in knowing that I am true/ When I look in your eyes, the idea of you,” they sing with clarion force on “Ideal World”. “I just miss how it felt standing next to you/ Wearing matching dresses before the world was big,” they chant on the title track, a line that doubles into a round-robin singalong.

Tividad and Tucker’s voices are foregrounded, always. They sing about real-life friends, by their first names. They reference each other by first name in their lyrics. “I am still looking for sureness in the way I say my name,” they sing on “Chinatown”. Their twinned vocals gives the album a powerful and traceable through line—these are songs about two specific friends who have realized that the world is a less frightening place, that you feel surer and safer in it, with someone else by you.

GIRLPOOL – ” Crowded Stranger ” So Far Session

Posted: September 7, 2015 in MUSIC
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Girlpool performing “Crowded Stranger” at Sofar London on June 10th, 2015. SoFar  put on more than 10 shows every month in London, with filmed sessions. Girlpool make songs that feel audaciously small, like an eyedropper pointed toward the heavens. The 10 songs on the debut album “Before the World Was Big” not only employ a bare minimum of chords (two, pretty much always) but a minimum of notes. If you’d never held a guitar, or even seen one, you could be gently coached to play “Ideal World”, the album’s opening track, within three minutes of being handed one. The same is true of many others. And yet, Before the World Was Big brims with a mysterious power, a charged and palpable sense of hope and awe. Focusing on the clean bones of the songs only leads you to be astonished by how full they feel. This is music with no corners, no hidden places in the arrangements, and the emotions emerge with gratifying clarity. Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker—who sing occasionally in harmony and occasionally in unison, but always together .To listen to Before the World Was Big is to meet their gaze and feel slightly unnerved and exhilarated. It is a quiet album of uncommon intensity.

Tividad and Tucker formed Girlpool when they were 17 and 18, and they told anyone who asked them at the time that they were drawn to each other for their shared sense of purpose: “We wanted something that was honest and straightforward,” Tucker said. “We both wanted to be super vulnerable…Because of the stripped down nature of our music, if one of us messes up, it’s incredibly noticeable. We’re not trying to hide.” In part, it is this clarity of purpose that resounds from the empty spaces on their debut LP. Their EP was shouted, and in its hardy squall, you could hear two powerful voices honing in on some way they might make a dent in the universe.

GIRLPOOL – ” Tiny Desk Concerts “

Posted: July 10, 2015 in MUSIC
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Girlpool‘s Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad perform in unison: They play their guitars that way — Tucker on lead, Tividad playing bass — and they sing the same angsty, funny words simultaneously, or as if emulating a nursery-rhyme-style round, a la “Row Row Row Your Boat.”

The duo has made one of my favorite albums of the year so far, “Before The World Was Big”, which followed a self-titled debut EP from 2014. Girlpool’s words deal with the pedestrian, the mundane and the beauty locked away in both. In 10 songs and 24 minutes, the charming, talented performers find their strength in essence, without drums or unnecessary rock trappings. The ingredients require no cooking and are served strictly raw, with one caveat: If it’s good, double it for sure.

Set List

  • “Before The World Was Big”
  • “Ideal World”
  • “Cherry Picking”

GIRLPOOL – ” Cherry Picking “

Posted: May 28, 2015 in MUSIC
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Acoustic punk duo Girlpool have shared a track from the forthcoming album “Cherry Picking”, a relationship lament, and the latest single from the band’s much anticipated debut album, “Before The World Was Big”. Taken from Girlpool’s debut album,  Out 1st June on Wichita Recordings.

Girlpool is a Philadelphia based two piece made up of Cleo Tucker (Guitar) and Harmony Tividad (Bass). The two met at Los Angeles DIY venue the Smell and quickly grew very close. Their sound is raw, comprised only of a guitar, bass and vocal harmonies. Cleo and Harmony use this stripped-down instrumentation to accentuate their vulnerable and powerful lyrics. After releasing their self-titled EP, Girlpool relocated to Philadelphia at the end of 2014 looking for change of pace and scenery. There they recorded their debut LP, ‘Before The World Was Big’, with Kyle Gilbride (of Swearin’). ‘Before The World Was Big’ explores the concepts of growth, friendship, and the interaction between identity and environment. The introspective-punk duo captures growing pains and existential quandaries with a honest and true intention. think the sparseness of Young Marble Giants, mixed with the attitude of Bikini Kill and the hooks of the Marine Girls.

GIRLPOOL – ” Jane “

Posted: March 15, 2015 in MUSIC
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Quickly rising Philadelphia-via-Los Angeles duo Girlpool gave their self-released debut EP a re-release on Wichita Records last year, and now they’re set to put out their first full length on the label. It’s called “Before The World Was Big“, and is due out on June 2nd. Their first single “Ideal World” is out now and you may recognize this one if you’ve seen them live. 

Girlpool are touring this year, including a run opening for Waxahatchee that hits NYC . They’ll also be at SXSW this month, where they’ll play a few shows including Speedy Ortiz and with  Metz, Mitski, Chastity Belt and more.

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