Parenthetical Girls Entanglements CD

Portand, Oregon's Parenthetical Girls have traded in their small-screen sincerity for a bold and blustering Technicolour - a lush and longing celluloid release they call 'Entanglements'. Borrowing string-swept sentimentality from the likes of Van Dyke Parks, Scott Walker, Jack Nietzsche, and Burt Bacharach, 'Entanglements' draws colorful lines across the expanse between these Orchestral Pop antiquities and the more formidable strains of modern classical composers - it's hues distantly reminiscent of names like Krzystof Penderecki, Philip Glass and Gav in Bryar's. Recorded in Seattle and Portland, the 'Entanglements' sessions gathered upwards of fifteen classically trained/experimental musicians - the result is uncannily ageless, sensually unsettling, and above all else, extraordinarily ambitious.

1. Four Words 2. Avenue of Trees 3. Unmentionables 4. Gut Symmetries 5. A Song for Ellie Greenwich 6. Young Eucharists 7. Entanglement 8. The Trysting Tree 9. The Former 10. Windmills of Your Mind 11. The Regrettable End