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Artist | Girlpool
Title | Before The World Was Big
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 24:08
Label | Wichita Recordings Store | 2015
Catalog | WEBB450CD Rip | 2015
Bitrate | 226 kbps Size | 41.56 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Ideal World 2:46
02. Dear Nora 1:54
03. Before The World Was Big 2:21
04. Chinatown 3:27
05. Cherry Picking 3:35
06. Magnifying Glass 0:36
07. Crowded Stranger 2:00
08. Pretty 1:50
09. Emily 3:09
10. I Like That You Can See It 2:30
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A drummerless electric guitar-and-bass duo offering a sparse but spirited
take on empowered indie rock, Girlpool's Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad
borrow plenty of attitude from early-90s trailblazers like Liz Phair,
Juliana Hatfield, and Shampoo. The duo formed in 2013, when Tucker and
Tividad were still teenagers living in Los Angeles. Sometimes fun and
playful, other times raw and vulnerable, their punk flair and honesty
struck a chord on their self-released eponymous debut EP. Tucker and
Tividad were approached by British indie Wichita Recordings, who set up a
U.K. tour and re-released their debut in November 2014. Late that year, the
duo relocated to Philadelphia and recorded with Kyle Gilbride of Swearin';
the results were 2015's full-length debut "Before The World Was Big".
Emerging from the Los Angeles indie underground in 2014, Girlpool sounded
like no other act, employing a deceptively simple formula to deliver their
raw tales of teenage woe, joy, and confusion. Using just electric guitar
and bass to accompany their voices, Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad
delivered a brief self-titled EP that was heartfelt, funny, powerful, and
twice as punk at half the volume. Seeking a change of pace, the two friends
relocated to Philadelphia at the end of the year, where they teamed up with
Kyle Gilbride (Swearin', Waxahatchee) to record their full-length debut,
"Before The World Was Big".
Still just shy of their twenties, Tucker and Tividad approach the world
with cautious abandon, looking backward with lines like 'I just miss how it
felt standing next to you, wearing matching dresses before the world was
big' even as they willfully place themselves in a new city on an unfamiliar
coast where unknown possibilities await. The growth between their EP and
this album is evident in the sophistication of their playing and the
subtlety of their tone, which is still as vulnerable as before but comes
from a more introspective and mature place. Slower, wistful tracks like the
acoustic "Dear Nora" and the gently ambient "Pretty" expand the scope of
Girlpool's sound but still live within their unique framework, which is
still totally unencumbered and very direct.
Vocally, Tucker and Tividad are wonderfully unpredictable, effectively
trading verses and lines, or more often singing together in both harmony
and unison and supporting one another in the face of uncertainty, like on
the standout track "Chinatown." Even more than on their first release,
Girlpool feel like a unit, totally locked into each other musically and
emotionally, and their stark presentation remains a boon to their risky and
appealingly human songs.
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