( ) Music
The morning sun is coming through the curtains this morning, diffused just enough for these bleary eyes to stay open. An evening spent out until the wee hours last night has given these early hours of the day a tiny, almost fragile, feeling and I seem to have found music to appropriately go with it.
Parenthetical Girls currently have a fluid lineup, but for the recording of Safe As Houses the lineup consisted of Zac Pennington, Sam Mickens, and Jherek Bischoff and an assorted cast of characters including Rachel Jensen and Owen Ashworth (of Casiotone fame). While the band's previous working relationship with Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu often still shows, the band has tempered their sound to be very much their own, softening and polishing the abrasiveness down to a minimum.
Buying the album is almost worth it for the art direction alone, with paintings of the band members as the cast of a relationship, one that is intimate but strained, mirroring the album and evoking the feeling when love has left and been replaced by dread and lovers are left with awkward pauses and shudders at touches.
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