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The Parenthetical Girls to Release Privilege Series

The Parenthetical Girls take a new approach for their latest release

Most bands follow a simple formula when they start releasing new music – they release a single, bombard the press with interviews and articles, and then release their album to a well-informed and hungry audience. The Parenthetical Girls are trying something a little different with their new release Privilege. The Portland act is releasing five 12” EPs on their own label over a period of 15 months as each is completed, creating a final product once the last EP is released in May 2011. The band is only printing 500 of each EP and won't sell them in stores either. And apparently, the members of the band will hand number each of the 500 limited release 12”s in their own blood. Somehow this seems strangely fitting.

Their first single “Evelyn McHale” also brings a similar shift in the norm to this month's releases. Jumping of from the new direction the Parenthetical Girls took on Entanglements, “Evelyn McHale” is a dreamy pop song named after a woman who jumped off the Empire State Building in the late 40s. As strange and depressing as this whole project sounds, the single is actually quite good and the music video is a perfect illustration of the line the band walks between malaise and charm. Now if the Parenthetical Girls are your type of thing or you're into human blood on your records, then their first EP in the series Privilege: Pt. 1 - On Death & Endearments should be on your “must buy” list for February. The four-song disc comes out February 23^rd on digital and vinyl through Slender Means Society.