Album Review: Girlpool - Before The World Was Big
17 June 2015 | 4:54 pm
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Roshan Clerke
"The girls write with caustic wit, burning effigies of their past selves."
Girlpool are quiet punks rebelling against their loud emotions. The Philadelphia-based duo sing about loss of innocence, friendship and identity across ten short, sparse songs on this debut album.
Simple arrangements underpin the piercing melodies of Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad, whose discordance reflects the anxieties beneath their music on songs like
Chinatown
. They capture a sense of urgency interspersed with peaceful vignettes of poetic observation on
Cherry
Picking
, a self-effacing ode to introspection that confronts selfishness and selective memory. The girls write with caustic wit, burning effigies of their past selves.
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