- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
As dazzling as Entanglements can be, its polish and uniqueness makes it more polarizing than anything Parenthetical Girls have done before.
-
The record is perhaps a more extreme a transformation than that of Patrick Wolf.
-
While certain details are kept shrouded, the acts and emotions are hyper-real, and the story's arc is plenty navigable.
-
Conceptually, Entanglements has been done before, but lyrics are reprised and musical sentences are repeated in such a way that it creates a singularly cohesive, linear narrative piece.
-
Parenthetical Girls consists primarily of Zac Pennington's unmistakable vocals, and they are given a musical context that emphasizes their stark beauty on this album. It was well worth the three years of effort on his part.