Begun as a home recording project amongst former childhood friends in the failed mill town of Everett, Washington, USA (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    [ read more ]

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Parenthetical Girls' third album and first for Tomlab is an eleven song linear narrative of moral ambiguities, set to an elaborately orchestrated olio of modern classical and timeworn, traditional American pop forms. They borrow from the string swept sentimentality of Van Dyke Parks, Scott Walker, Jack Nitzsche, and Burt Bacharach, then introduce the influence of more formidable strains of modern classical composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Philip Glass, and Gavin Bryars. The result is a confluence of    [ read more ]

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Featuring the title track, a non-album track entitled 'Afterwords', and an alternate, 'Untangled' version of 'This Regrettable End'.

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