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- Summary: The band from the Everett, Washington area releases its third album with new label, Tomlab.
- Record Label: Tomlab
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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While certain details are kept shrouded, the acts and emotions are hyper-real, and the story's arc is plenty navigable.
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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.
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As dazzling as Entanglements can be, its polish and uniqueness makes it more polarizing than anything Parenthetical Girls have done before.
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MojoIt's full-bodied baroque. [Oct 2008, p.109]
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Throw Pennington's arch, quivering voice on top and what you have is a theatrical overload, too calculated and exhausting to really impress.
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Q MagazineFor album number three he's assembled a trio of multi-instrumentalists and vividly succeeded in realising some of his early "Spectorian" ambitions. [Oct 2008, p.149]
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Its vaguely experimental ambitions and occasionally interesting musical flourishes don’t do much to separate it from the mass of baroque indie already circulating, amassing often unwarranted critical acclaim.
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