Parenthetical Girls take things that should be emotionally wrenching/overwhelming, and rather than let their song marinate in it until the whole thing’s a stew of self-immolation–what the kids call emo–they shove it into a blast furnace, and out comes this shimmering object of music and feeling. Zac Pennington’s found his voice on this one, a nasal, trembling, almost operatic sort of thing, singing us a tragedy that begins “when they pulled you from the tracks/your body splayed and split” above a marching tom and twinkling xylophone. There’s barely a build-up or break-down over the next three minutes: a guitar slips into the background, Pennington self-harmonizes for a few and a few overlapping lines, a snare hits at odd times, and that’s it: a pretty, simple, sad song.

WW on P Girls
WW on (((Grrrls)))

Emo is stealing our children. (News Clip)

P Girls on the internet: www.slendermeanssociety.com/parenthetical/

Photo: The paparazzi catches up with Zac Pennington.

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