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Track: I Was the Dancer
Artist: Parenthetical Girls
Album: Safe As Houses

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Name: Parenthetical Girls
Spotify Genres: baroque pop, art pop
Followers: 8,122
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Parenthetical Girls was an experimental pop band formed in Everett, Washington, and then based in Portland, Oregon. Begun primarily as a recording project, the touring ensemble consisted of vocalist [a=Zac Pennington], [a=Rachael Jensen], [a=Eddy Crichton] and [a=Matt Carlson], all sharing a variety of instrumental duties. Former touring members [a=Jherek Bischoff] and [a=Sam Mickens] (of the band [a=Dead Science]) joined them for recording sessions. Their music was notable for its combination of saccharine pop and experimental elements and has been compared with such disparate acts as [a=Brian Eno], [a=Philip Glass], [a=Xiu Xiu] and [a=Phil Spector]. Originally taking their name from the [a=Brian Eno] composition "Swastika Girls", original members Zac Pennington and Jeremy Cooper self-released their limited run debut EP Christmas With Swastika Girls in 2002. After Cooper left the band, they changed their name and Pennington released (((GRRRLS))), the band's vinyl-only debut album on his own [l=Slender Means Society] label in 2004. This got recorded with the help of [a=Jherek Bischoff] and [a=Jamie Stewart (2)] (of Xiu Xiu fame). A split 7-inch with the band [a=Dead Science] was released by [l=Obsolete Vernacular] in 2007. In 2008 they switched labels to Germany's Indietronic source [l=Tomlab]. In 2017, bandleader Zac Pennington declared that the project had ended. Announcing, "Parenthetical Girls is over."

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Release: Parenthetical Girls / Extra Life - Head Shrinker/I Was The Dancer
Year: 2011
Genres: Electronic, Pop
Styles: Experimental

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LYRICS

soiled my jeans lie in heaps beneath me
blood marrs the sheets and they stain so easily
swollen wrists, knees, and you swelled inside me
and it took nine months to destroy my body
I was the dancer
my head filled with laughter
and then the disaster
you came sometime after

I was young then
full of grace then
but oh, resentments

l. o. v. e. scratched your name into me
f. a. c. e. and it's traces of me
curls round your cheeks, christ, you looked just like me
when you took nine months to destroy my body

now I'm in my bed
you tore me asunder
and years after labor
its all I remember

I was young then
full of grace then
but oh, resentments