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Handsome Tours and Endeavour Live Presents are thrilled to announce LA’s Girlpool are coming to New Zealand this September in support of their critically-acclaimed album, What Chaos Is Imaginary. The duo, consisting of Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad will be playing shows in Auckland and Wellington before completing their tour across Australia.
Co-produced by Girlpool and David Tolomei (Future Islands, Beach House, Dirty Projectors) What Chaos Is Imaginary is a collection of songs unlike any Girlpool songs you’ve ever heard, exactly what Powerplant was to Before The World Was Big. For the first time, it is clear who wrote what song. 2019 will see drum machines and synthesizers and beautiful/new harmonies and huge guitars and at least one orchestral breakdown by a string octet.
“It was invigorating playing stripped down and raw when Girlpool began. As we change, what gets us there is going to change too.” It’s hard to imagine what might follow What Chaos Is Imaginary. Girlpool’s growth has a steady momentum forward, towards something greater with every stride that they take. Be sure to catch them this September as they embark across Australia and New Zealand.
Girlpool What Chaos Is Imaginary New Zealand TourFri 6 Sept - Galatos, AucklandSat 7 Sept - Meow, Wellington
Praise for What Chaos is Imaginary
"There's an elevated maturity and sense of daring that makes What Chaos is Imaginary a beautifully textured record to get lost in."- NZherald
"Ever-evolving as songwriters has led to each album being a snapshot of a band in the midst of evolution, and What Chaos Is Imaginary is Girlpool's biggest leap yet." -Consequence of Sound
"Girlpool's full-band transformation has illuminated its raw sound in deep and unexpected ways." -NPR
“A new approach to songwriting, as informed by the members’ solo efforts, helps mark this record as Girlpool 2.0 – more like a collaborating duo than a unit, but nonetheless captivating.”- TheMusic.com.au
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Girlpool Biography
Avery Tucker and Harmony Tividad have been making critically-acclaimed music as Girlpool since they
were high schoolers, scurrying around Los Angeles’ all-ages concert spaces and skipping class to play
gigs with their friends. As their radically minimal first full-length Before The World Was Big was winning
them fans far beyond the DIY circles they came from, the duo was testing out life on the east coast, where
they continued to translate the bittersweet beauty of late-adolescence into melodic punk and indie-pop.
Their next two albums, Powerplant and What Chaos Is Imaginary, are sonic time capsules documenting
their development — as songwriters, but also as humans, moving through the world together and
separately.
A few years ago, Girlpool returned full-time to their hometown of Los Angeles. Now in their mid-20s,
Avery and Harmony are coming to terms with what it means to reengage with the sprawling sunburnt
metropolis of their youth as adults. Unsurprisingly, they’ve started making songs that feel as complex and
mysterious as the experiences that have shaped this tumultuous era of their lives. Enter Forgiveness, the
brand new full-length Girlpool album, which finds the duo embracing weirdo-pop decadence without
sacrificing the poetic curiosity that has always made their music so absorbing.
Read Morewere high schoolers, scurrying around Los Angeles’ all-ages concert spaces and skipping class to play
gigs with their friends. As their radically minimal first full-length Before The World Was Big was winning
them fans far beyond the DIY circles they came from, the duo was testing out life on the east coast, where
they continued to translate the bittersweet beauty of late-adolescence into melodic punk and indie-pop.
Their next two albums, Powerplant and What Chaos Is Imaginary, are sonic time capsules documenting
their development — as songwriters, but also as humans, moving through the world together and
separately.
A few years ago, Girlpool returned full-time to their hometown of Los Angeles. Now in their mid-20s,
Avery and Harmony are coming to terms with what it means to reengage with the sprawling sunburnt
metropolis of their youth as adults. Unsurprisingly, they’ve started making songs that feel as complex and
mysterious as the experiences that have shaped this tumultuous era of their lives. Enter Forgiveness, the
brand new full-length Girlpool album, which finds the duo embracing weirdo-pop decadence without
sacrificing the poetic curiosity that has always made their music so absorbing.
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