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Parenthetical Girls
Safe as Houses
Genre: Alternative Rock

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Love Connection, pt. II
2. I Was the Dancer
3. Oh Daughter/Disaster
4. One Father, Another
5. The Weight She Fell Under
6. Survived By Her Mother
7. Keyholes & Curtains
8. Forward to Forget
9. The Four Platitudes (a Bridge Song)
10. Stolen Children

CD Details

All Artists: Parenthetical Girls
Title: Safe as Houses
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Slender Means Society Records/
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 6/20/2006
Genre: Alternative Rock
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 678277124622, 8426946903113, 842694690311

Synopsis

Album Description

The second album from Pacific Northwest pop group the PARENTHETICAL GIRLS--ZAC PENNINGTON and DEAD SCIENCE members SAM MICKENS and JHEREK BISCHOFF (who also is a regular contributor to XIU XIU and CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE). Beginning where their previous (((GRRRLS))) album left off--on the same sweat-and-menstrual-blood-soaked summer lawn--the album takes a sonic leap forward, pitting Pennington?s plainspoken and startlingly corporeal apparitions with kitchen sink experimentation and dark pop arrangements. Creepy, dirty, and beautiful.

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CD Reviews

Awesome.

William Hoffknecht | Fernley, NV | 05/28/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Parenthetical Girls are an amazing band that fills their songs with all sorts of sounds. I got the honour of running sound for them at a show a couple of years ago and get this CD when it was first released. If you like strange and experimental music, this is right up your alley.

Lyrically the songs are on par with the first album, dark and sad lyrics from a woman's point of view but sung by in a very timid male voice.

I do think this album surpasses the first one, (((GRRRLS))), in both musical and lyrical quality. But, if you buy the first album there are some cool Xiu Xiu remixes of the entire album in mp3 form hidden on the cd. It is very cool."