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Can’t believe I didn’t hear that half of Girlpool transitioned until the band broke up. But I guess I don’t keep up with bands outside of listening to their music lol

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What Chaos is Imaginary [2019] - Girlpool

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Album Breakdown: Girlpool's "What Chaos is Imaginary"  by new Trans Music contributor, Sullivan Haine 

Girlpool’s core consists of Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad and was formed in Los Angeles, CA back in 2014. The duo released their first EP in November of that year, then an album the next June, with Wichita Recordings. 

If I had to describe Girlpool’s latest album in one word, it would be “chill.” Released on Feb 1 by ANTI-Records, “What Chaos is Imaginary comes in strong with “Lucy’s,” catching the ear with a classic guitar riff, matched with bluesy vocals. Harmony and Tucker’s voices are each unique, and Tucker’s has deepened over the past year. Tucker’s lyrical partner Harmony taught him how to harmonize, drawing on her past in choir, according to a recent interview in i-D. 

But he has obviously come into it, as “All Blacked Out” is raspy, calming, almost like Tucker is singing quietly into your ear rather than through the headphones. “Watch you lay your head, sitting onbricks in Philadelphia,” sings Tucker over a twangy guitar. “Lucky Joke” speaks straight to my innermost anxieties and was by far my favorite track on the record. “A stroke of genius can make you careless,” sings Tividad in this track. 

“Hire” is also a great song to listen to when you’re fighting the man and trying to get a job. “Advertise what makes you crazy,” sings Tucker. While in the band has been vocal about difficulties they have faced over the past year, it is clear they are starting out 2019 strong with this album. 

Follow Sullivan on instagram and twitter @poolpartygay 

Editor’s Note: Due to a poorly timed stomach flu, this week’s podcast episode will be released tomorrow. 

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Playlist for December 17, 2018 Part I

Ani DiFranco - Not So Soft Girlpool - Hire Miley Cyrus - Space Bootz Shannen Moser - Trouble Mitski - A Horse Named Cold Air Henry Jamison - Through a Glass Joanna Newsom - Jackrabbits Franz Liszt - Consolation No. 3 Carrie Ford - jacki’s weed Daniel Johnston - Devil Town Shelf Life - X Alex G - Powerful Man Dilly Dally - Sober Motel

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Playlist for November 26, 2018

Alex G - Gnaw Tori Amos - Black Swan Bob Dylan - Farewell, Angelina Joan as Police Woman and Benjamin Lazar Davis - Broke Me in Two Mitski - My Body’s Made of Crushed Little Stars Mitski - A Horse Named Cold Air Molly Drag - Boxing the Needle Lisa/Liza - Tea Kettle Thought Balloon - Disappeared Michael Kiwanuka - Tell Me a Tale Etta James - I’d Rather Go Bline Girlpool - Hire Mal Devisa - Beauty is a friend of mine Xenia Rubinos - Help

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Girlpool Bring New Album to Music Hall of Williamsburg Tomorrow Night

Girlpool are a band of their time. Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad are like a mirror reflected back on our moody, absurd and often fraught landscape—the Trump age meets Instagram FOMO. At first a sparse guitar-bass duo, Girlpool captivated and charmed the heck out of indie-rock lovers everywhere—the pair’s high harmonies ringing out in mutual angst and joy. But their latest album, this past February’s What Chaos Is Imaginary (stream it here), out on Anti-Records, is richer and fuller, adding strings, synths and drum machines to the mix. It’s the first record since Tucker has come out as trans and started taking testosterone, his voice now a velvety undercurrent. On What Chaos, the two singers leapfrog over each other, a sparkly sad Tividad on “Pretty” (above) and a moody-as-fuck Tucker on “Chemical Freeze.” What Chaos is the band’s most boundary-pushing album yet and it works. The LP is a snapshot of their own growth: On “Hoax and the Shrine,” a supersoft acoustic number, Tividad sings, “I wandered around a shapeless station/ In soliloquy clouds/ That nebulous dichotomy town.” This pondering rootlessness is an identifiable feeling: It’s exactly right for this, our world in 2019. Girpool, even as they expand their sound and style, continue to question and change, the ever-curious carve-outs in a crowded indie scene. They play Music Hall of Williamsburg on Wednesday. Australian singer-songwriter Hatchie and Brooklyn’s Claud open the show. —Rachel Brody | @RachelCBrody

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girlpool- what chaos is imaginary (2019)

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album review: girlpool - what chaos is imaginary;

album review: girlpool – what chaos is imaginary;

This review originally appeared on The Arts Desk.

Few bands have grown up in real time in quite as interesting a way as Girlpool. It’s partly a question of timing: Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker were barely old enough to play bars around the release of their precocious 2013 debut EP, with its sing-song harmonies and cover like a child’s painting. And it’s partly a reflection of how their…

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