Girlpool – What Chaos Is Imaginary (album download)
Girlpool release a brand new album entitled “What Chaos Is Imaginary” packed with 14 songs. They recently shared the album’s title track. Harmony Tividad’s falsetto soars over an organ, cinematic violins, and a slow-bumping kick drum: “Got your head in the clouds / And two eyes on the shaking ground / I loved you from the petty view and watched you like the daily news.” Listen below
Their new music project sees the pair address these challenges and come out the other side stronger than ever. Lush synths, drum machines and strings flesh out the full-band sound they adopted on Powerplant. Sometimes tending toward shoegaze with gauzy guitars, other times leaning into melancholic pop inherited from Elliott Smith, it’s Girlpool grown up, and grappling with the costs of coming into their own.
“We’re both interested in communicating honestly and living in honesty. “For me at least, it comes pretty naturally to speak on my experiences to the best of my ability.” “Girlpool kind of got set up that way,” Cleo adds, by way of explanation. “What it is, and has been for so long, is the sharing of ourselves with each other. So inherently, there is intimacy there.”
Having created viscerally personal music together for half a decade now, Cleo and Harmony’s intimacy runs deep. Many of the songs on What Chaos Is Imaginary were written years ago, and reworked for the album. A handful of them appeared in different forms on Harmony’s 2018 album Oove Is Rare, and two are still on Cleo’s Soundcloud in whispery demo form. Cleo says, “The album feels like a very transitional time, sonically, because it’s a lot of these older songs, and then it flirts with these new interests that we have.”
Stream and download What Chaos Is Imaginary below.
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