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Parenthetical Girls
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Portland, Oregon
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Member Since12/21/2006
Band Websitehttp://www.slendermeanssociety.com/parenthetical/
Band MembersMatt Carlson
Eddy Crichton
Rachael Jensen
Zac Pennington

And Sometimes Y:

Jherek Bischoff
Sam Mickens
InfluencesPopular Music.
Sounds LikeVery Popular Music.
Record LabelTomlab. Slender Means Society.
Type of LabelIndie


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   About Parenthetical Girls
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Begun as a home recording project amongst former childhood friends in the failed mill town of Everett, Washington (a place considerably less romantic than that manipulative phrasing is meant to suggest), the membership of Parenthetical Girls—in mutual disinterest and indifference—quietly chipped away at itself until only one particularly under-qualified member, singer and relative non-musician Zac Pennington, remained. As long on ambition as he was short on musical aptitude, Pennington willed what was little more than a particularly arduous band name into a recording partnership with some of his especially capable acquaintances—namely The Dead Science’s Jherek Bischoff and Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart. That partnership became a record called (((GRRRLS))) (2004), released on Pennington’s newly-christened vanity label, Slender Means Society.

Soon after Pennington moved to Portland, Parenthetical Girls became something of an actual band—though mostly in the non-committal sense: comprised first of (a much-indebted) Pennington, Bischoff, and Bischoff’s Dead Science-mate Sam Mickens, and eventually just Pennington and Mickens. This core trio would ultimately produce Safe As Houses (2006), a record that would go on to critical acclaim, and countless flattering—if sometimes greatly overstated—Xiu Xiu comparisons.

Following the release of Safe As Houses, the band fatefully settled on a more stable line-up, adding to its ranks several recent Portland imports in Matt Carlson, Rachael Jensen, and Eddy Crichton—multi-instrumentalists each—whose full-time membership would eventually help to shape Parenthetical Girls in their own respective images. After several lengthy tours in the U.S. and Europe in support of Safe As Houses, the four piece convened to begin preparations for what would by leaps and bounds be the group’s most ambitious work to date. Making good use of his fancy degree in composition, Carlson in particular would prove especially pivotal in this pursuit, who—along with Bischoff’s long-essential production and arrangement work—would help to realize the Technicolor potential long implicit in the (((GRRRLS)))’s earlier works.

EntanglementsPARENTHETICAL GIRLS-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 from the string-swept sentimentality of unlikely pop-ulists like 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 Krzysztof Penderecki, Philip Glass, and Gavin Bryars. The result - as blended with Parenthetical Girls' already messily dripping palette - is an unsettlingly relentless emotional offensive; a gasping, restless confluence of cerebral and sentimental disparities, bound for their mutual allegiance to the uncannily timeless soundtrack that engulfs them both.

"...one of 2008's great misunderstood albums"--The Onion

ENTANGLEMENTS will be in stores Sept. 9th, 2008 via Tomlab & Slender Means Society


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Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements

JUNE 27TH, 2006
PARENTHETICAL GIRLS-Safe As Houses:

Recorded with the bands recent three-piece configuration (an ensemble made up of Zac Pennington and Dead Science members Sam Mickens and Jherek Bischoff--who also served as producer for the record), "Safe As Houses" embraces the groups 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, its much better.

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Parenthetical Girls - Safe As Houses

APRIL 25TH, 2006
PARENTHETICAL GIRLS-(((GRRRLS))): Reissued, Repackaged, Remastered.

In anticipation of the release of Safe As Houses--the sprawling follow-up to (((GRRRLS))) tentatively scheduled for a June release-- Slender Means Society is issuing (((GRRRLS))) on CD for the first time, in remastered, yet equally confusing format.

In an attempt to maintain the distinct duality of the LP release, the CD version of (((GRRRLS))) features both editions of the album--but in two different, enhanced CD formats: version O (as mixed by Jherek Bischoff) plays on any standard CD player like your average CD should, while the X version (as mixed by Jamie Stewart), takes advantage of the near ubiquity of the iPod revolution by offering its tracks as super high quality MP3s, accessible via any computer. (Confused? Me too. Just put it in your computer--you'll figure it out). Additionally, the enhanced materials feature "Inspirational Shortpants (avec paroles)," a newly finished track not available on the original vinyl release.

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Parenthetical Girls - (((GRRRLS)))


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Tara





Jul 5 2009 2:00 PM

Thanks for adding me. Love your single! Can't wait for more.

SIXTER





Jul 3 2009 7:03 AM

luuuuuuv yr musik!
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Jun 29 2009 8:26 AM

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Jun 26 2009 10:19 AM

Hey,

It was nice seeing you guys in Portland! Thank you for coming out and having a chat. We love your band dearly!

XOXO
Model Warships





Jun 26 2009 12:22 AM

thanks for the add, really love your stuff

MW x
Katsuhiko Watanabe





Jun 25 2009 8:18 AM

Thanks for the add!
Thanking you in advance☆゚+

Your music made me a happy feeling.
You are great. Thank you very much!
Marie Antoinette





Jun 23 2009 10:57 PM

Live like a Teenage Christ.

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Jun 22 2009 3:52 PM

Finally we upload on flickr the photos of your gig in rome!

Chek them out, click HERE

The Dynamx





Jun 16 2009 3:55 AM

Hey thanks for the add =] what do you think of the tunes?
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Jun 15 2009 11:04 PM

thx for accepting our request! greetings from Vienna to Portland, RJR
Marie Antoinette





Jun 14 2009 8:45 PM

We miss you so much here.
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Jun 15 2009 8:20 PM

monkeywrench likes parenthetical girls

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Jun 11 2009 11:46 PM

EDDY will there ever be a Reindeer tiger team reunion? or a bikeula reunion?
Jill





Jun 9 2009 11:23 PM

Love your music. Check out my profile when you get a chance! Thanks!

the lost boy





Jun 8 2009 7:24 PM

thank you!

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Jun 7 2009 11:38 AM

I like your flavor, neighbor!
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Jun 5 2009 9:39 PM

Thank you for adding me. I hope you will pop over some time. XXX
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May 28 2009 7:18 PM

Hey Parenthetical Girls, Just Showing Some Love...
Julia





May 26 2009 1:39 PM

Hi hun! Love your music. Please look me up when you are free! Thanks.

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May 18 2009 6:45 PM

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May 16 2009 1:48 AM

Hey! how's it going?
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May 13 2009 12:32 PM

Hello my dear ,Thanks for add. Nice Music.
.If any new music please come my profile drop message or comment to update me.Take care and all the best .
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May 11 2009 5:59 PM

hi :)
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May 9 2009 6:05 AM

Greetings from NY. Thanks kindly for your friendship.

"A Song for Ellie Greenwich" is stuck in my head constantly.

-Sean
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