Parenthetical Girls
Originally calling themselves “Swastika Girls” after a Brian Eno/Robert Fripp song, the northwestern experimental indie pop band Parenthetical Girls began as a bedroom-recording duo consisting of Jeremy Cooper and Zac Pennington in 2002. With a shared appreciation of Eno and Phil Spector they laid down seven lo-fi songs on an eight-track recorder and essentially left them for dead, before Jherek Bischoff (of the Dead Science) and Jamie Stewart (of Xiu Xiu) mixed those same songs into, not only useable material, but mixes that would become the nexus of their identifiable sound. Since that time, Parenthetical Girls—with the core constant of gender-bending vocalist, Pennington—have released two more LPs, and a host of EPs and singles.... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Alternative/Indie, Dream Pop, Experimental, Ambient/Electronic
- City Of Origin:
- Everett, ,Washington United States
- Formed Date:
- 2002